Category: Pesticides

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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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“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 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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“Ecological restoration” in Dane County = Broadcast spraying of poisons

September 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Dane County Parks claims to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM). What a farce. Large swaths of the woods in Lake View Hill Park (a conservancy) that were green and vibrant…

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Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II

May 15, 2021 Jim Powell

The latest installment of Maria’s Powell’s saga of a corporation and the city that loved it…to its own detriment. OSCAR MAYER SLUDGE HISTORY, PART II <– NEW OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE…

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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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Pesticides and PFAS should be tested at Oscar Mayer, Burke & Starkweather Creek

April 3, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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Does anyone in Madison care about pesticide use? Whatever happened to ecology?

February 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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Monona Bay, Downtown Madison’s Toxic Cesspool

February 15, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Fish art on Monona Bay created by Eric Anang. Photo by Amber Arnold, Wisconsin State Journal. Graphic additions by a MEJO collaborator. PFAS was found at significant levels in Monona…

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What does 2021 hold for Oscar Mayer?

January 31, 2021 Jim Powell

As PFAS pollution in Madison is detected in more and more places, and as the government regulating the pollution (WDNR) and the government entities responsible for much of that pollution…

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Felling a Full-Fledged Forest is Pure Folly

February 17, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Debra Desmoulin. Please alert everyone to an environmentally-destructive project that Herb Kohler is trying to push through the Department of Natural Resources in the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Please…

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City of Madison continues to violate its pesticide policy

July 11, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: City of Madison employee applies Roundup along edges of Warner Park Community Center parking lot **** In a 2014 post, we wrote about how the City of Madison wasn’t…

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The City of Madison asks residents to have more environmentally-friendly yards. Many do. A few get prosecuted for it.

October 19, 2015 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Janette Rosenbaum, Madison freelance journalist. *** In the 1970’s, Madison became the first city to legalize natural yards – that is, yards that feature native plants in natural-style assemblages,…

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Is the City of Madison Following Its Pesticide Policies?

September 18, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

While in Warner Park on September 8 2014, I saw a Madison Parks employee spraying Roundup near the Warner Park Community Recreation Center (WPCRC), including along sidewalks just a few…

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Dane County Parks Celebrates Earth Week by Cutting Down Many Large Trees

April 24, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

(Cut tree stumps treated with pesticides, Lake View Hill Park, April 23rd) On Earth Day and the day after, April 22rd and April 23th 2014, contractors hired by Dane County…