Everyone deserves a healthy environment
From the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (full article here or here) By Kostoff RN, Briggs MB, Porter AL, Hernández AF, Abdollahi M, Aschner M, Tsatsakis A. Abstract Coronavirus disease…
Above: Eric Xiong from the Truax apartments fishing at Starkweather Creek where it enters Lake Monona in Olbrich Park (Photo, Maria Powell) This story has been updated from the previous…
The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county, and military from the 1950s-1980s. Above, the airport’s cell phone…
On May 10, F-16s from Madison’s Air National Guard Truax Field took off while MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong was teaching kids from the East Madison Community Center about birds, trees, and…
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…
Above: View of Madison-Kipp’s Fair Oaks factory from the low-income apartments across the street. Clean Air Madison, MEJO, and Kipp neighborhood activists tried for many, many years–to no avail–to convince…
(Photo above: Construction during the Madison Verona Rd-W. Beltline highway expansion) The Washington Post reported yesterday: “Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color, study finds.” This finding…
Citizen wisdom from the beginning of the “environmental decade” In 1970, a Madison citizen activist publicly questioned the idea that “growth is good.” He asked why people played a secondary…
Oscar Mayer in 1947 (Wisconsin State Journal photo) In May 2020, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) contracted by the City of Madison, while it was preparing to purchase…
For 100 years, Oscar Mayer & Co. and corporations that purchased it have polluted the land and groundwater beneath the site–as well as Starkweather Creek, Yahara River, and Lake Monona.…
By Catherine Capellaro, Wisconsin Examiner A group seeking to halt the siting of a squadron of F-35 fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S.…
Firefighters spray PFAS-containing foam on exploded transformer at the Madison Gas & Electric Blount St. station in Madison, summer 2019 (Photo by Wisconsin State Journal) On July 19, 2019 an…
Today’s New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof (pasted below for those who don’t have NYT subscriptions) raises alarms about declining sperm counts and fertility overall since the 70s, connected…
Photo: City of Madison worker applying pesticides along curbs at the Warner Park Center parking lot A letter by Jim Powell to The Cap Times : In 2017, I wrote…
Free time after work! (Photo by Maria Powell, Summer 2018) This fish worked very hard cleaning up the PFAS in the west branch of Starkweather Ditch as it flows through…