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…
PCEs with your Pie, Anyone? Toxic Plume Under Goodman Center Still Ignored…
A couple weeks ago, I had lunch with a friend in the Ironworks Café at the Goodman Community Center. The food was delicious and the servers were helpful and friendly.…
Oops!!! Maybe a Raingarden for Kipp’s Toxic Runoff Wasn’t a Good Idea After All?
Children Creating Kipp Raingarden in 2006–Mucking Around in Kipp’s PCBs! Original Photo Caption from the 2006 Rock River Newsletter: Whitehorse Middle School science students seemed to enjoy rolling up their…
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Kipp Settles Lawsuit, Silences Neighbors with Money, and Denies Responsibility
The class action lawsuit against Madison-Kipp Corporation (MKC) was approved in U.S. District Court on Oct. 28 in a hearing that lasted a few minutes. The judge, lawyers, and two…
Kipp’s Contaminant Plume Under Goodman Center–Are Children Exposed? Nobody Knows…
Documents from Madison Kipp’s consultants, released by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) June 21, 2013, show that Kipp’s plume of toxic volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) is beneath the…
Fireworks Over Downtown Madison Pose No Long-term Health Risks? We Disagree
Jeff Lafferty of Public Health Madison Dane County (PHMDC) assured the public in recent newspaper articles that the huge Rhythm & Booms fireworks show planned for downtown Madison in 2014…
Neighbors Settle for $7.2 Million But Many Kipp Environmental Injustices Still Not Addressed
The immediate neighbors around the Madison-Kipp Corp. factory settled their two class action lawsuits on Monday, July 15. The immediate neighbors and their attorneys will receive a total of $7.2…
Ignorance is Bliss (Series Supplement)
Remember the Kipp Dioxin Debacle? Lo and Behold, Kipp Has Been Producing Dioxins All This Time! (shhhh…..) Dioxin from Kipp’s Stacks? An “Urban Myth” of “Misinformed Activists”! The issue of…
New Data Maps Show Widespread Kipp Pollution
New Maps Show Alarming & Widespread Groundwater Contamination Around Kipp Using just-released data at the Madison-Kipp 101- year old industrial site and surrounding neighborhood, Dr. Lorne G. Everett has produced…
“Shocking” Levels of Contaminants Found at Madison-Kipp in Recent Tests
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—March 25, 2013 “Shocking” Levels of Contaminants Found at Madison-Kipp in Recent Tests Recent tests at Madison-Kipp Corporation reveal “shocking” levels of PCEs in groundwater beneath the factory…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 3 )
Toxic Contaminants at Madison-Kipp? Don’t Worry, There’s No Risk! Overview: Toxic Contaminants From Above and Below The U.S. EPA Notice of Violation that Madison-Kipp Corporation (Kipp) received in September 2012…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2)
Forgot to follow Wisconsin pollution laws? No worries, DNR doesn’t mind In a previous article (below and here), MEJO explored whether the Goodman Community Center, built on a contaminated former…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2 Cont.)
A Note about the Industrial History of the Goodman and Kipp sites According to Goodman’s 2008 closure documents, previous manufacturing activities at the Goodman Community Center property included metal cutting,…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 1)
Environmental Justice Issues at Madison-Kipp and Goodman Community Center Ignored The east side of Madison, Wisconsin, is not a place most people would expect to have environmental justice problems. Toxic…