Are hazardous vapors seeping into your basement?
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.
Madison-Kipp’s PCBs Continue to Pollute Area Along City Bike Path
To learn more, see article by Steve Verburg in the Wisconsin State Journal…
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…
Communities Press EPA to Regulate Vapor Intrusion
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…
Kipp Raingarden Update, Part 1: MEJO tests show that city land next to Kipp raingarden still contaminated with PCBs
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…
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…
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…
Kipp CEO refuses to answer questions about how company is addressing risks to factory workers
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…
Huge societal costs of toxic chemicals
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?
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…
What is Kipp doing to protect its workers from vapor intrusion? They won’t say.
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
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…