Category: Toxic Chemicals

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Madison polluter doesn’t like what he reads

November 11, 2017 Jim Powell

Graphic from the Nov 2, 2017 Isthmus weekly newspaper The Wisconsin State Journal published an October 28, 2017 article, “Best estimate is plume from Madison-Kipp plant could reach drinking water…

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Are hazardous vapors seeping into your basement?

September 6, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Lynn Peeples for Ensia. The movement of underground contaminants into buildings is attracting increased scrutiny from health experts, advocates and agencies Read the full article here.

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Madison-Kipp’s PCBs Continue to Pollute Area Along City Bike Path

September 5, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

To learn more, see article by Steve Verburg in the Wisconsin State Journal…

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Midwest Environmental Justice Organization Joins National People’s Task Force on Superfund’s Future

July 25, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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’…

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Foxconn’s Horrific Worker Safety & Environmental Record Coming to Wisconsin??

July 23, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

“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…

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Communities Press EPA to Regulate Vapor Intrusion

May 20, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

MEJO joined dozens of organizations and activists including Erin Brokovich in co-signing a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this week, urging him to allow rulemaking on vapor intrusion to…

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Kipp Raingarden Update, Part 1: MEJO tests show that city land next to Kipp raingarden still contaminated with PCBs

April 3, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Kids walk along bikepath next to Kipp raingarden in February 2017. Sadly, the seemingly never-ending Kipp raingarden saga continues. (See the long history of the Kipp Raingarden PCB Saga…

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The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) funds Midwest Environmental Justice Organization project

February 24, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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No, chemical industry, you can’t have your cake and eat it too (Part 1)

February 13, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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What a Surprise!! More PCBs found in city-owned Kipp raingarden…

November 18, 2016 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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Kipp CEO refuses to answer questions about how company is addressing risks to factory workers

October 24, 2016 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This is a followup to a previous post. A month ago I emailed John Hausbeck at Public Health Madison Dane County for help answering a set of questions about Kipp…

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Huge societal costs of toxic chemicals

October 18, 2016 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News Researchers estimate the United States economy takes a $340 billion hit annually as endocrine-disrupting compounds lower IQs, increase behavior problems and exacerbate health woes like…

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City of Madison not requiring Kipp to measure PCBs in raingarden?

October 1, 2016 Jim Powell

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…

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What is Kipp doing to protect its workers from vapor intrusion? They won’t say.

September 29, 2016 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Workers in Madison-Kipp factory. … Kipp says they stopped using the highly toxic solvent tetrachloroethylene, also called perchloroethylene or PCE—the toxic chemical that was the main focus of the…

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From the Archives: “The Mean Machine” on Lake Monona, Madison, Wis., 2006

June 13, 2015 Jim Powell

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…