A “Healthy and Safe Place” for “Good Clean Fun”?
Is this a safe place for children to frolic in a splash pad? Here are some of the toxic contaminants and safety risks not visible in the above photo… A…
How Far North is the Kipp Plume? Kipp Doesn’t Want The Public to Know…
At a March 19, 2014 community presentation, Madison-Kipp Corporation’s CEO Tony Koblinski presented Kipp pollution maps and invited citizens to view them after his talk, noting that “when you get…
Kipp’s Former Raingarden–Now SludgeGarden–Even More Toxic Than We Knew…
Yesterday we obtained a Figure from the City of Madison with more PCB data from soils excavated from the Kipp raingarden, on City of Madison property just north of Kipp,…
Madison Kipp: Making a Beautiful Difference?
See the beautiful difference: Kipp Raingarden to Kipp Sludgegarden. Previous story about the Kipp raingarden here. A raingarden was built by middle school children in 2006 next to Madison-Kipp Corporation.…
Dane County Parks Celebrates Earth Week by Cutting Down Many Large Trees
(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…
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“Mother Nature, though wounded, begins to take care of it,” says polluter
At a March 19 public presentation, the president of Madison-Kipp Corporation described various pollution remediation actions that the aluminum parts manufacturer is belatedly being forced to do by the Wisconsin…
Kipp Offers Water Utility Some Advice: Run Olbrich Well 24/7!
In a February 26, 2014 email Madison-Kipp Corporation advised the Madison Water Utility to pump the Olbrich Well (Well 8) full-time, after the Water Utility Board asked for assurance from…
20,000 ppm PCBs under Kipp? No Worries ! “Just Ordinary Dirt,” says Kipp CEO
(Kipp’s CEO, Tony Koblinski, in Kipp’s corporate offices, photo from Madison.com) In a June 19, 2013 letter to the Wisconsin DNR (first obtained by MEJO in January, 2014), the U.S.…
Environmental Injustices “Beneath the Surface” in Madison
DOCUMENTARY HERE In “progressive” Madison, denial of any serious environmental pollution problems, growing race and income inequalities, and white privilege among government decisionmakers work together to create—and yet render invisible—racial…
DNR Too Busy to Answer Questions About Madison-Kipp. Can Anyone Out There Help?
For several years, MEJO has been asking the Wisconsin DNR questions related to Madison-Kipp Corporation’s toxic pollution. Last December, Remediation and Redevelopment staff threatened us with a $700 fee to…
Eat Fish, Live Longer?
Well, it depends… (Fish truck in New York City, Jan 3, 2014)
A recent Madison Commons article about eating locally caught fish and EJ
From Madison Commons: Advisories on eating fish from local lakes may not be reaching all By Yilang Peng | Thu, 10/17/2013 – 10:19am Fish from Madison’s lakes contain contaminants that…
Environmental Injustices At Verona Road Continue…
Steve Glass posted an excellent blog, with photos by David Thompson, about the social and environmental injustices related to the ongoing Verona Road Interchange reconstruction project. Several years ago, MEJO…
Still Invisible: The Risks of Eating Locally Caught Fish from Polluted Waters
MEJO’s first project involved toxins in locally caught fish in Madison, Wis. What we had expected to be a two month project–installing fish consumption advisory signs along lake shorelines–turned into…
DNR Now Charging $700 to Answer Questions?
The DNR just doesn’t like to answer questions about Madison-Kipp Corp. MEJO has experienced the art of the “non-answer” answer from DNR for years, but now it has gotten to…