Environmental justice at the end of 2017
By Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News Read Environmental Health News’ overview of the state of environmental justice as we head into 2018 here.
Community dinner kicks off new EPA-funded environmental justice project
MEJO and the East Madison Community Center held a community fish dinner on September 30 to close out the Center’s Hunger Action Month activities and kickoff MEJO’s new USEPA-funded Starkweather…
Midwest Environmental Justice Organization Joins National People’s Task Force on Superfund’s Future
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) joins more than 20 Superfund sites and 70 environmental organizations on the “People’s Task Force on the Future of Superfund,” which has outlined citizens’…
Foxconn’s Horrific Worker Safety & Environmental Record Coming to Wisconsin??
“State officials and lawmakers are working on an incentive package to lure giant Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to Wisconsin,” the Wisconsin State Journal reported on July 21, 2017. Foxconn would…
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) funds Midwest Environmental Justice Organization project
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) has received a grant from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, the grassroots organization founded in 1981 by Lois Gibbs after her historic…
Everyone deserves a safe & healthy home
Photo: The view from the site where the City of Madison has approved a low income housing development, with substantial city funding. Click here for a brief taste of what…
No, chemical industry, you can’t have your cake and eat it too (Part 1)
Richard Denison, Ph.D., Environmental Defense Fund There is an extreme anti-regulatory and anti-science bandwagon moving fast through Washington, and much of the chemical industry seems to have jumped right on…
What a Surprise!! More PCBs found in city-owned Kipp raingarden…
Photo: Madison-Kipp raingarden in August 2014; behind it, Kipp was building a new curb and fence and paving parking lots, without the required approval and permits. MGE was digging around…
Environmental Justice
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Soil contamination
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Water Pollution
City of Madison not requiring Kipp to measure PCBs in raingarden?
This pictogram was used in this post; the splash pad has since been completed Since August we have tried to get the following information from the City of Madison on…
PCB Excavation Along Bike Path next to Madison Kipp–Enjoy Photos!
A previous post shared details about the excavation of soils contaminated with high levels of PCBs, from October 6-9, 2015, along the bike path between Madison Kipp Corporation and the…
More PCBs on city bike path to be excavated October 6-9; City of Madison says no warning signs needed
In June 2015, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) of up to 680 ppm—orders of magnitude above the residential (0.2 ppm) and industrial (0.7 ppm) direct contact standards—were found in soils next to…
Air Pollution
Dioxins
Environmental Justice
Goodman Community Center
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Toxins
Wisconsin DNR
Worker health and safety
Madison-Kipp Clean Air Act violations: MEJO response to Kipp CEO
Madison-Kipp Corp President/CEO Tony Koblinski responded to our post regarding the EPA consent decree for his company’s Clean Air Act violations. Here is our response: Dear Mr. Koblinski: We offer…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
PCBs
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Racial disparities
Racism
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Water Pollution
Water quality
From the Archives: “The Mean Machine” on Lake Monona, Madison, Wis., 2006
In September 2006, MEJO held a fish advisory sign making party and fish fry at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay in Madison. Wis., to raise awareness of shoreline anglers about…