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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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Victory!! No Metro Bus Barn at the Poisoned Oscar Mayer site

February 3, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Oscar Mayer site in 1947 (photo from Wisconsin State Journal) Victory for Madison’s Northside! Madison’s Metro Transit authority has abandoned plans to buy the northern part of the highly-contaminated former…

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Madison Northsiders say NO to Metro Bus Barn!

November 22, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Madison Northsiders No Bus Barn is the Northside community’s voice for better land use at the previous Oscar Mayer site. We are dedicated to place-making in this new era…

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Madison’s long history of racist planning and development

October 11, 2020 Jim Powell

Madison newspaper The Cap Times published this column on October 8. Column Madison’s long history of racist planning and development By Maria Powell | executive director, Midwest Environmental Justice Organization…

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Sharon Helmus, your courageous Kipp resistance will be remembered!

April 10, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

One month ago, on March 10, 2018 Sharon Helmus died from complications after colon cancer surgery. She was 78. My husband and I visited Sharon three times in the hospital—our…

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Kipp’s Carcinogenic Chemicals Still Vaporizing into Surrounding Neighborhood

March 16, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

The class action lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation, settled in 2013, seems like eons ago. Have Kipp’s pollution problems been resolved? Far from it. PCBs remain in soils under the…

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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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EPA-funded report recommends pollutant testing for Madison community center

September 23, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: View from inside the Goodman Center’s Ironworks Cafe, looking out to the Kipp factory loading docks. A report from the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO), funded by EPA…

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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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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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Resistance Radio to feature “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison”

September 9, 2024 Jim Powell

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MARIA POWELL: A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE – JULY 20, 2024

July 16, 2024 Jim Powell

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Reflections on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2024 Jim Powell

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“Maria Powell wasn’t just an activist. In Madison, she was the premier environmental activist.”

November 18, 2023 Jim Powell

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