EPA PFAS “Strategic Roadmap” is no panacea
Sharon Lerner’s recent Intercept article– People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action
“After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due.”
(Above: Sign about 1992-93 Starkweather Creek remediation near O.B. Sherry Park; photo by Maria Powell in 2018) “After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due?” Too bad this…
Dane County
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
“‘Something has to be done’ about Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways”–Wisconsin Watch
Above–MEJO’s Ida Jammeh (left) talking with residents of Darbo-Worthington neighborhood about Starkweather Creek in 2018 (photo by Maria Powell). Learn more about our Starkweather project here. ********* When we started…
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental destruction
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Toxic Chemicals
Are we sleepwalking?
This morning I came across an excellent–though very disturbing–Mongabay article, part of a series: Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary? The answer is unequivocal: YES Mongabay…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish Advisory
PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
Racial disparities
UPDATE: Yahara Lakes fish advisories reflect “two Madisons”
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…
Fish from all Yahara lakes except Mendota and Wingra on advisory for PFAS
DNR: Fish from Yahara chain of lakes contaminated with PFAS; anglers warned to limit consumption Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal Health officials are warning anglers to limit consumption of fish…
Mayor responds to Sustainable Madison Committee’s PFAS Recommendations
Eken Park Resistance leaders and community members put jars of local waters in front of the City-County Building at the Water is Life event, April 2021 On May 23, Chris…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Yahara Lakes
DNR repeatedly engages public in Marinette & Peshtigo on PFAS–but ignores Madison
Heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek water and sediments flood over a backyard garden in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood in Madison, about a mile south of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax…
Air National Guard
Department of Defense
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
F-35
Fighter jets
Military
Racial Justice
Truax
Fighter jets, environmental education, and social justice do not mix
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…
Government won’t test air pollution in the Madison-Kipp neighborhood, so citizens are doing it themselves
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…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Racial Justice
Starkweather Creek
Water Pollution
Sustainable Madison Committee to Mayor and Council on PFAS
Above: Fishing at the mouth of Starkweather Creek as it flows into Lake Monona at Olbrich Park (Photo-Maria Powell) April 27, 2021 To: Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, Members of the Madison…
Air Pollution
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Madison
Racial disparities
WisDOT
In “green” Madison, air pollution ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms people of color
(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…
Madison: Address racial and environmental injustices created by design and denial
Earth Day 2018: East Madison Community Center kids, Gambian Youths, and MEJO removed trash from large city storm drain discharging to a Starkweather Creek tributary across from the Truax apartments–a…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental Justice
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS “forever chemicals” impair our immune systems–National Academy of Sciences
Above: Teens fishing at the mouth of Starkweather Creek in Madison, a popular shoreline fishing spot for people of color, including many who feed their families with the fish they…
Air National Guard
Department of Defense
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Addendum: Will Wisconsin Air National Guard follow DNR laws on PFAS investigations & cleanup?
A couple weeks ago, we posted this article asking whether the Wisconsin Air National Guard (WIANG) will follow DNR laws regarding investigation and cleanup of its highly contaminated base in…