Category: Environmental Justice

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Wisconsin Environmental Health Network Conference 2025

February 19, 2025 Jim Powell

Some of you know that Maria was very artistic and one of her passions was using her childhood Barbie in various ways to communicate her (Maria’s) concern about plastic and…

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

September 9, 2024 Jim Powell

Maria Powell’s book, “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison,” is the topic of an upcoming Resistance Radio interview with Derrick Jensen on Sunday, September 15 at 5 pm CDT.…

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

July 16, 2024 Jim Powell

Friends – please consider attending as I would love to see you there, and feel free to spread the word to others who knew Maria. MARIA POWELL: A CELEBRATION OF…

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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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MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell has passed away

November 14, 2023 Jim Powell

It is with great sadness that we announce that our founder, Maria Powell, has passed away. She will be missed greatly. OBITUARY | MARIA POWELL, 59 Maria Powell, longtime activist…

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

October 28, 2023 Jim Powell

On October 26, the Midwest Environmental Advocates held a ceremony naming MEJO founder Maria Powell as one of its 2023 Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Awardees. MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong…

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MEJO Executive Director Dr. Maria Powell is receiving an environmental justice award

October 17, 2023 Jim Powell

MEJO Executive Director Dr. Maria Powell is receiving an environmental justice award from the Midwest Environmental Advocates MARIA POWELL Maria Powell is a co-founder of Madison Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO),…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Tell Madison Plan Commission to follow Environmental Justice policy on December 12

December 10, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On Monday, December 12, the Madison Plan Commission will decide whether to approve conditional use zoning so developers from Santa Monica, CA can build 550+ units of dense “affordable” and…

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

December 8, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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How environmental injustices are created in privileged, “progressive” Madison

November 20, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

The photo above depicts the “gas house” and “bridge” (red) Kraft-Heinz built on the Hartmeyer property west of the factory site, to pump natural gas to its power plant after…

Dane County Environmental Justice PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes

Lakes & Watershed Commission: Who is most burdened by PFAS? Who doesn’t have a voice? How can county policies mitigate unintended consequences?

August 3, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** (See Part II of the below article here) In January 2018, MEJO learned that PFAS was used at Dane County-owned Truax Field, at the Air National Guard base. That…