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Oscar Mayer’s Earth Day, 1970: Spray chemical perfumes on sewage stench!

May 10, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In 1970, just before Madison’s first Earth Day, Oscar Mayer installed a mile-long system that misted artificial chemical perfumes around its sludge lagoons–after decades of neighborhood complaints about the sewage…

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Earth Day 1970 in Madison, Wisconsin

April 22, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day events were held across the United States, spearheaded by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Madison) and Dennis Hayes, a Harvard Kennedy…

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MEJO and East Madison Community Center teens find significantly elevated PFAS levels in Starkweather Creek sediments

April 21, 2020 Jim Powell

Earth Day 2020: Fifty years after first Earth Day, toxic environmental pollution still pervasive (Madison, Wis.)–New PFAS results, released before the COVID 19 lockdown, show significantly elevated levels of PFOS…

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For Earth Day, MEJO and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin Clear City Storm Drain

April 22, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On April 21, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization’s Starkweather team joined the Gambian Youths of Wisconsin and East Madison Community Center youth to clean up trash trapped in a large…

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Resistance Radio to feature “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison”

September 9, 2024 Jim Powell

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MARIA POWELL: A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE – JULY 20, 2024

July 16, 2024 Jim Powell

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Reflections on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2024 Jim Powell

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

November 18, 2023 Jim Powell

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