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EPA-funded report recommends pollutant testing for Madison community center
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…
Are hazardous vapors seeping into your basement?
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.
Madison-Kipp’s PCBs Continue to Pollute Area Along City Bike Path
To learn more, see article by Steve Verburg in the Wisconsin State Journal…
Midwest Environmental Justice Organization Joins National People’s Task Force on Superfund’s Future
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) joins more than 20 Superfund sites and 70 environmental organizations on the “People’s Task Force on the Future of Superfund,” which has outlined citizens’…
Foxconn’s Horrific Worker Safety & Environmental Record Coming to Wisconsin??
“State officials and lawmakers are working on an incentive package to lure giant Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to Wisconsin,” the Wisconsin State Journal reported on July 21, 2017. Foxconn would…
City of Madison continues to violate its pesticide policy
Photo: City of Madison employee applies Roundup along edges of Warner Park Community Center parking lot **** In a 2014 post, we wrote about how the City of Madison wasn’t…
Communities Press EPA to Regulate Vapor Intrusion
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…
What ever became of the DOJ lawsuit against Kipp?
In September 2012, the Wisconsin DOJ filed a lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation. It is still unresolved. Why? Because it was always intended as a tool to protect Kipp from…
Kipp PCBs continue to pollute area along Isthmus bike path, even after multiple remediations
Kipp drain pipe carries toxic PCBs to city rain garden near bike path , STEVEN VERBURG sverburg@madison.com The company expects to find a solution soon, but critics say government regulators…
THE TRUE COST of Burning Military Munitions
By Laura Olah, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, Cease Fire Campaign Toxic pollutants are released when munitions are open burned, open detonated or incinerated. These toxic emissions endanger public…
DNR becoming “Chamber of Commerce” instead of regulator?
Photo: Cathy Stepp, head of WI DNR (aka Chamber of Commerce?) When Scott Walker appointed Cathy Stepp in 2011 to head the Wisconsin DNR, he said he wanted someone with…
Kipp Raingarden Update, Part 1: MEJO tests show that city land next to Kipp raingarden still contaminated with PCBs
Photo: Kids walk along bikepath next to Kipp raingarden in February 2017. Sadly, the seemingly never-ending Kipp raingarden saga continues. (See the long history of the Kipp Raingarden PCB Saga…
It Is Time to Reform Landscape Ordinances – Part 4
Photo: One of many pollinator-friendly yards in the City of Madison, as depicted by the city’s Pollinator Protection Task Force Report. Photo by Ledell Zellers. By Janette Rosenbaum During the…
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) funds Midwest Environmental Justice Organization project
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) has received a grant from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, the grassroots organization founded in 1981 by Lois Gibbs after her historic…