Cancer
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Plastics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Air National Guard
Air Pollution
Cancer
City of Madison
coronavirus
Environmental health
F-35
Fighter jets
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Decision to base F-35s in Madison ignores public health concerns
By Bruce Barrett and Paula Rogge, Cap Times Today we are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Our federal, state and local government officials have been working hard to contain the…
Air National Guard
Air Pollution
Ecology
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Starkweather EJ Project
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Truax
Virus
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wetlands
Starkweather Creek PFAS sediment testing in the news
Photo (Maria Powell): Bridges Golf Course ditch flowing into Starkweather Creek, where the highest levels of PFOS were found Nice coverage by a Madison newspaper of our Starkweather Creek sediment…
Air Pollution
City of Madison
Earth Day
Ecology
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Military
Pentagon
Earth Day 1970 in Madison, Wisconsin
Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day events were held across the United States, spearheaded by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Madison) and Dennis Hayes, a Harvard Kennedy…
City of Madison
Community engagement
Dane County
Earth Day
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Racism
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Starkweather EJ Project
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DNR
MEJO and East Madison Community Center teens find significantly elevated PFAS levels in Starkweather Creek sediments
Earth Day 2020: Fifty years after first Earth Day, toxic environmental pollution still pervasive (Madison, Wis.)–New PFAS results, released before the COVID 19 lockdown, show significantly elevated levels of PFOS…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
prions
Public Health Madison Dane County
stormwater runoff
Tennyson
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
Low-income housing built on “environmental nightmare,” infectious agents
Was the site cleaned up before development? No. ****************** In the last three years, low income apartments, an assisted living facility, and several Habitat for Humanity homes have been constructed…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental Justice
EPA
F-35
Fighter jets
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Risk Assessment
Soil contamination
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Trump
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DNR
Superfund will not protect our waterways — or us — from the military’s toxic pollution
Maria Powell, Cap Times op-ed Photo above: Starkweather Creek going through Truax Field The final environmental impact statement (EIS) on basing F-35 fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field states that…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental Justice
EPA
F-35
Fighter jets
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
The Final F-35 EIS is a total sham
The public comment process for the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for basing F-35s at Madison’s Truax Air National Guard base was not only token—it was a total sham. According…
City of Madison
Dane County
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Don’t kill the messenger: City water utility spokesperson falsely accuses media of bias
PFAS hits in Madison drinking water wells By Steven Verburg, for the Isthmus In a Jan. 16 guest column in Isthmus, a Madison city water utility spokesperson took a page…
Cancer
City of Madison
Community engagement
Environmental Justice
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Toxic Chemicals
Water Utility dismisses public concerns, puts public relations over public health
On January 9, 2020, the Isthmus published a cover story on PFAS: “The fight for safe drinking water; Will Madison officials pay attention to the science on PFAS?” I commend…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
Public Health Madison Dane County
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Wisconsin DHS
Wisconsin DNR
High levels of PFAS found in Starkweather Creek, Lake Monona fish (gee, what a surprise!)
In October, 2018–after months of asking the city, county, and DNR to test fish in Starkweather Creek–we posted this article asking why nobody would test the fish. We had known…
Cancer
City of Madison
EPA
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Wisconsin DNR
The fight for safe drinking water: Will Madison officials pay attention to the science on PFAS?
Graphic from ISTHMUS By Kori Feener, Isthmus Maria Powell used to believe that science would prevail. She co-founded the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization in 2005, hoping to draw attention to…
City of Madison
City of Madison Parks Department
Community engagement
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Public Participation
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DHS
Wisconsin DNR
PFAS Task Force RIP
As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or does not take–regarding locally-occurring toxic pollution problems. The proposed Madison-Dane…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
City of Madison Parks Department
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
Madison Gas & Electric
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DHS
Wisconsin DNR
PFAS levels in creek are more than “concerning”
The PFOS amount in foam found in Starkweather Creek was 92,000 parts per trillion, far exceeding the laughable EPA advisory threshold level of 70 ppt. The mayor should be more…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water quality
Wisconsin DHS
Wisconsin DNR
Madison Mayor calls PFAS levels in Starkweather Creek foam ‘concerning’
Photo: Kids fishing from Starkweather Creek at the Olbrich boat launch in summer 2018 (Maria Powell) By Abigail Becker, Cap Times Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources confirmed Thursday high concentrations…