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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…
Everyone deserves a safe & healthy home
Photo: The view from the site where the City of Madison has approved a low income housing development, with substantial city funding. Click here for a brief taste of what…
No, chemical industry, you can’t have your cake and eat it too (Part 1)
Richard Denison, Ph.D., Environmental Defense Fund There is an extreme anti-regulatory and anti-science bandwagon moving fast through Washington, and much of the chemical industry seems to have jumped right on…
It Is Time to Reform Landscape Ordinances – Part 3
Photo: Tim Wong’s bush has grown next to his neighbor’s driveway for over 20 years without causing any problem. By Janette Rosenbaum The first two parts of this series reviewed…
It Is Time to Reform Landscape Ordinances – Part 2
Photo: Tree-lined streets like this one have safer traffic flow than streets without trees. By Janette Rosenbaum. Part 1 of this article described Madison’s vegetation ordinances, how public opinion is…
It’s Time to Reform Landscape Ordinances – Part 1
By Janette Rosenbaum In Madison, you cannot have any plants in your terrace within two feet of the street. You cannot have any plants along the bottom of your driveway…
What a Surprise!! More PCBs found in city-owned Kipp raingarden…
Photo: Madison-Kipp raingarden in August 2014; behind it, Kipp was building a new curb and fence and paving parking lots, without the required approval and permits. MGE was digging around…
City’s Priorities Out of Order; Citizens Punished for Doing the Right Thing (a new series)
Above: The city has prioritized replacing a paved segment of terrace with grass, over repairing a pothole where children slip on ice (see story below). MEJO introduction to series: City…
Kipp CEO refuses to answer questions about how company is addressing risks to factory workers
This is a followup to a previous post. A month ago I emailed John Hausbeck at Public Health Madison Dane County for help answering a set of questions about Kipp…
Huge societal costs of toxic chemicals
Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News Researchers estimate the United States economy takes a $340 billion hit annually as endocrine-disrupting compounds lower IQs, increase behavior problems and exacerbate health woes like…
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City of Madison not requiring Kipp to measure PCBs in raingarden?
This pictogram was used in this post; the splash pad has since been completed Since August we have tried to get the following information from the City of Madison on…
What is Kipp doing to protect its workers from vapor intrusion? They won’t say.
Photo: Workers in Madison-Kipp factory. … Kipp says they stopped using the highly toxic solvent tetrachloroethylene, also called perchloroethylene or PCE—the toxic chemical that was the main focus of the…
Cathy Stepp “fights for DNR behind the scenes”?
What does this mean? Read article by Wisconsin State Journal’s Steve Verburg here.