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Reflections on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2024 Jim Powell

MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell wrote three essays on Dr. King and his views on the “giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism,” each posted on previous MLK Jr…

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“Maria Powell wasn’t just an activist. In Madison, she was the premier environmental activist.”

November 18, 2023 Jim Powell

From the Cap Times: Madison just lost one of its best environmental assets By Steve Elbow, Opinion Editor Maria Powell wasn’t just an activist. In Madison, she was the premier…

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PFAS “at levels of concern” in Starkweather Creek? What does this mean?

March 27, 2023 Maria C. Powell, PhD

MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong stands next to PFAS “advisory” sign next to heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek just downstream of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax Air National Guard base, near…

Arrogance City of Madison Denialism Environmental Justice Hartmeyer Kraft Heinz

Plan Commissioners have no clue what environmental justice means–or don’t care?

December 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This is a postscript to “Tell Madison Plan Commission to follow Environmental Justice policy on December 12″ (also pasted below). Did Plan Commissioners address (or even discuss) environmental justice on…

City of Madison Denialism Doublespeak Environmental Justice Hartmeyer Kraft Heinz Oscar Mayer

Eastsiders be warned! City hydrogeologist says Isthmus is more contaminated than Hartmeyer/Oscar Mayer site!

December 13, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In today’s Wisconsin State Journal article by Chris Hubbuch, city hydrogeologist Brynn Bemis was quoted saying that the Hartmeyer land, where coal was stored and fuel oil spilled–and just feet…

Arsenic City of Madison Denialism Department of Natural Resources Hartmeyer Kraft Heinz Oscar Mayer

Will “capping” arsenic at Hartmeyer housing protect vulnerable people?

December 12, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ City of Madison planners are working with developers from California (Lincoln Avenue Capital) to build 550+ units of affordable and senior housing on contaminated land next to the abandoned…

City of Madison Denialism Department of Natural Resources Doublespeak Kraft Heinz Oscar Mayer

Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons, Part II: Community resists

December 11, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

First, a little background… Part I described how Kraft Heinz purchased the Hartmeyer property, and how our current “remediation and redevelopment” regulatory approach is intended to protect polluters like Kraft…

City of Madison Denialism Doublespeak Environmental Justice Privilege Racial disparities Racism

The only place low income people can afford to live in Madison? Whose fault is that?

December 8, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ In a recent

Denialism Department of Health Services Department of Natural Resources Doublespeak Kraft Heinz Oscar Mayer

WTF? DHS assesses health risks at proposed affordable housing site with “industrial” standards

December 6, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ This piece is a followup from

City of Madison Denialism Doublespeak Law Park landfill Monona Terrace

Miracle! Or magic? Design teams can fix Lake Monona!

December 1, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ Big news! Three finalists in the Lake Monona Waterfront Design Challenge have figured out how the city can fix Lake Monona’s water quality problems–while also redeveloping the shoreline and…

Arrogance City of Madison Denialism Doublespeak

WSJ thanks Madisonians for their privilege

November 25, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

“Maybe in another few thousand years, the archeologists will find an ancient paddle board buried somewhere in Madison with a Clean Lakes Alliance sticker on it and an iPhone nearby–all…

City of Madison Denialism Hypocrisy

Citizen calls out Madison’s denialism: “Waterfront design won’t clean lake”

November 13, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** In a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal, Madison resident Rich Carney points out the denialism and hypocrisy of the city’s Monona lakeshore redesign plans. “Waterfront…

City of Madison Denialism Doublespeak Law Park landfill Monona Terrace

“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part III: “Unimaginable toxic horrors” remain unmeasured

November 2, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ hen government shifts from merely presenting the facts on a public project to an orchestrated campaign that avoids any negatives, Joe Taxpayer never knows if he’s getting the truth…

Dane County Regional Airport Denialism Doublespeak Parody PFCs or PFAS Truax

Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking

October 5, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** A small consulting firm out of Verona, Orin Technologies , claims that it has done what no other scientists or engineers anywhere else in

Burn pits City of Madison Dane County Regional Airport Denialism Department of Defens PFCs or PFAS

DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?

September 29, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** On July 25, 1989, Laurie Egre at the Wisconsin DNR wrote to her colleague Joe Brusca about the “Truax Air National Guard Fire Training Site.” She referred to the…

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MEJO founder Dr. Maria Powell wins Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award

October 28, 2023 Jim Powell

Reflections on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Maria Powell wasn’t just an activist. In Madison, she was the premier environmental activist.”

PFAS “at levels of concern” in Starkweather Creek? What does this mean?

Plan Commissioners have no clue what environmental justice means–or don’t care?

Eastsiders be warned! City hydrogeologist says Isthmus is more contaminated than Hartmeyer/Oscar Mayer site!

Will “capping” arsenic at Hartmeyer housing protect vulnerable people?

Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons, Part II: Community resists

The only place low income people can afford to live in Madison? Whose fault is that?

WTF? DHS assesses health risks at proposed affordable housing site with “industrial” standards

Miracle! Or magic? Design teams can fix Lake Monona!

WSJ thanks Madisonians for their privilege

Citizen calls out Madison’s denialism: “Waterfront design won’t clean lake”

“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part III: “Unimaginable toxic horrors” remain unmeasured

Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking

DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?

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“Maria Powell wasn’t just an activist. In Madison, she was the premier environmental activist.”

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MEJO founder Dr. Maria Powell wins Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award

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