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Hartmeyer natural area
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Starkweather Creek
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What does 2021 hold for Oscar Mayer?
As PFAS pollution in Madison is detected in more and more places, and as the government regulating the pollution (WDNR) and the government entities responsible for much of that pollution…
DNR orders new plan to stop spread of PFAS at Madison airport after experimental treatment fails
Starkweather Creek flowing from the Dane County Regional Airport By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal The Department of Natural Resources says an experimental technology has failed to keep so-called “forever…
Air National Guard
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Fish Advisory
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Truax
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Oops! We poisoned the “Giants Among Us”–the Yahara lakes
MEJO’s Jim Powell and Touyeng Xiong teach kids how to put bait on fish hooks at the Olbrich Park fishing pier on Lake Monona, summer 2018. Sadly, they couldn’t eat…
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F-35
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Privilege
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Racism
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten “giant triplets” alive & well in Madison, Wisconsin
From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the…
My Father, Martin Luther King Jr., Had Another Dream
By Martin Luther King III, New York Times If he saw the issues of poverty and income inequality that exist today, he would be greatly disappointed. See video of Martin…
Cancer
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Madison Metro
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Starkweather Creek
TCE
Toxic Chemicals
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Water Pollution
Madison Northsiders say NO to Metro Bus Barn!
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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Fish
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Starkweather Creek
Starkweather EJ Project
stormwater runoff
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Truax
Wastewater Treatment
Water quality
Utility to build over toxic sludge at former sewage plant on Madison’s Northside
Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate powerhouses, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), plans to build a…
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Ho-Chunk
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Madison’s long history of racist planning and development
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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Ho-Chunk
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Truax
Development disparities: Madison’s classist, racist beginnings are alive and well in 2020
Photo: Oscar Mayer in 1947 (Wisconsin State Journal archives) ********** Flying in the face of its stated commitment to racial equity and social justice, Madison is as racist and classist…
City of Madison
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Toxic Chemicals
Wisconsin DNR
Madison alders approved city’s first environmental justice policy this summer–without knowing it
Dane County and Madison have some of the worst racial disparities in the nation. Elected officials vow time and again to fix things, but when there’s a choice between doing…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Fire fighting
Fish Advisory
Madison Gas & Electric
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Firefighting Foam Action in Wisconsin
From International Fire Fighter Vicki Quint Water contamination issues from PFAS are creating pressure on the fire service to make changes in toxic AFFF products. PFAS contamination of drinking water…
Air National Guard
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Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Trump
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Faith Leaders Oppose F-35 Fighter Jets
A full-page ad appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on July 29, 2020 – speaking against the F-35 fighter jets for reasons of social and environmental justice, and world peace.…
Madison Juneteenth rally today
Madison Juneteenth rally Friday, June 19th, 7pm at Olin Park Read Natalie Yahr’s Cap Times article about the history of Juneteenth Day and the Madison event here and below. ********…
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coronavirus
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Police brutality and environmental injustices are connected
(Image from The Nation) MEJO condemns the brutal killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer–and commends Black Lives Matter, other racial justice activists, and all…
City of Madison
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Dane County
East Madison Community Center
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Starkweather EJ Project
stormwater runoff
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Water quality
Wisconsin DNR
Northside teens push for creek clean-up after new sediment tests find high levels of PFAS — again
By Oona Mackesey-Green, Northside News (photo by Garth Olmanson) When the test results came back in February showing high levels of PFAS in the sediment at Starkweather Creek, a foot…