Cancer
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Plastics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Air National Guard
Cancer
City of Madison
Dane County
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Toxic PFAS is in Starkweather Creek; will anyone test the fish?
Fish caught by children at the mouth of Starkweather Creek in June 2018 (they did not eat the fish). A MEJO post last May linked to an Air National Guard…
WDNR to Prioritize PFAS Threat to State Waters–CSWAB Update
By Laura Olah, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger The WI Department of Natural Resources has announced that it is has established an internal workgroup to help determine the scope…
Climate Change
E-waste
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental Justice
Over-consumption
Plastics
Toxic Chemicals
Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: a Realist’s Perspective on the Environmental Crisis
By Kristine Mattis, Counterpunch We’re an egoistical, delusional lot, us humans. We’re the only species on the planet who despoils its own life support system and who does not live…
Community engagement
Dane County
Environmental Justice
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Toxic Chemicals
Truax Contaminants May Be Affecting Madison Drinking Water–CSWAB ACTION ALERT
By Laura Olah, Executive Director of Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger. The Madison Water Utility has reported that Truax Field’s Wisconsin Air National Guard base is a possible source…
Ho-Chunk and Starkweather Event is Huge Success!
The Ho-Chunk and Starkweather Creek history event on July 25, organized by MEJO’s Starkweather Environmental Justice project team, was a huge success—a really unique multi-cultural gathering. Event co-sponsors were Ho-Chunk…
Learn about the Ho-Chunk People of DeJope & Starkweather Creek, Wed. July 25 at the East Madison Community Center
Please join us on Wednesday, July 25 at 6:30pm at the East Madison Community Center to learn about Ho-Chunk history in the DeJope (Four Lakes) region and about the history…
MEJO, East Madison Community Center Kids, and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin Go Fishing!
On Saturday, July 7, the MEJO Starkweather project team, kids in the East Madison Community Center summer programs, and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin went to the mouth of Starkweather Creek…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Madison-Kipp Corp.
PCBs
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Wisconsin DNR
The Kipp raingarden PCB saga is not over
Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after PCBs were first found there? Is the adjacent bikepath area…
Madison Alders Submit Comments on Draft Environmental Impact Statement for F35s at Truax Field
At the invitation of the National Guard Bureau, a group of Madison alders submitted requested comments on May 21 for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) about the proposal to…
Air National Guard
Environmental Justice
EPA
PFCs or PFAS
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
Truax Field PFC (PFAS) Contamination 569 Times Over EPA Health Advisory Level; Madison Drinking Water Contaminated?
Last week the Wisconsin DNR released documents pertaining to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)—also commonly called poly- or per-fluoroalkyl substances or PFAS—at Truax Field’s Wisconsin Air National Guard (WANG) base. One of…
For Earth Day, MEJO and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin Clear City Storm Drain
On April 21, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization’s Starkweather team joined the Gambian Youths of Wisconsin and East Madison Community Center youth to clean up trash trapped in a large…
City Council Approves Resolution to Submit Comments for F35 EIS Process
From Brenda Konkel’s April 18 Forward Lookout blog: “The Chamber of Commerce was just one vote away from from preventing the City of Madison from giving input on about the…
Sharon Helmus, your courageous Kipp resistance will be remembered!
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…
Send Comments on Environmental Justice Impacts of F-35s to Air National Guard by this Friday, April 6!
Martin Luther King Jr. on balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN just before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 (AP photo). Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin…
Kipp’s Carcinogenic Chemicals Still Vaporizing into Surrounding Neighborhood
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…