Air National Guard
Burn pits
Dane County
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Dane County Parks Celebrates Earth Week by Cutting Down Many Large Trees
(Cut tree stumps treated with pesticides, Lake View Hill Park, April 23rd) On Earth Day and the day after, April 22rd and April 23th 2014, contractors hired by Dane County…
Is Kipp A Safe Place to Work? Cleaning Employee Fired by Contractor for Asking
(Madison-Kipp Worker Pouring Molten Aluminum) –Madison Kipp Corporation’s non-unionized manufacturing workers, and contractors brought in to clean and do other work at the factory, are at ground zero for exposures…
So Sorry, DNR! Here’s the full transcript of the Jan. 29 2014 MEJO-DNR meeting
(MEJO President, Dr. Maria Powell) In a meeting on March 21st, two DNR managers and two DNR lawyers scolded MEJO President, Dr. Maria Powell, for audiotaping the January 29 meeting…
Air Pollution
Madison Water Utility
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Public Participation
Soil contamination
Toxins
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
“Mother Nature, though wounded, begins to take care of it,” says polluter
At a March 19 public presentation, the president of Madison-Kipp Corporation described various pollution remediation actions that the aluminum parts manufacturer is belatedly being forced to do by the Wisconsin…
Kipp Offers Water Utility Some Advice: Run Olbrich Well 24/7!
In a February 26, 2014 email Madison-Kipp Corporation advised the Madison Water Utility to pump the Olbrich Well (Well 8) full-time, after the Water Utility Board asked for assurance from…
High Levels of PCBs Being Excavated from Kipp’s Floors—Are Workers Protected?
(Two Kipp Workers, photo by John Hart, Madison.com). According to a recent letter from Kipp to the DNR, Kipp has been excavating inside the factory, and finding PCBs in concrete…
20,000 ppm PCBs under Kipp? No Worries ! “Just Ordinary Dirt,” says Kipp CEO
(Kipp’s CEO, Tony Koblinski, in Kipp’s corporate offices, photo from Madison.com) In a June 19, 2013 letter to the Wisconsin DNR (first obtained by MEJO in January, 2014), the U.S.…
Environmental Injustices “Beneath the Surface” in Madison
DOCUMENTARY HERE In “progressive” Madison, denial of any serious environmental pollution problems, growing race and income inequalities, and white privilege among government decisionmakers work together to create—and yet render invisible—racial…
DNR Too Busy to Answer Questions About Madison-Kipp. Can Anyone Out There Help?
For several years, MEJO has been asking the Wisconsin DNR questions related to Madison-Kipp Corporation’s toxic pollution. Last December, Remediation and Redevelopment staff threatened us with a $700 fee to…
Eat Fish, Live Longer?
Well, it depends… (Fish truck in New York City, Jan 3, 2014)
A recent Madison Commons article about eating locally caught fish and EJ
From Madison Commons: Advisories on eating fish from local lakes may not be reaching all By Yilang Peng | Thu, 10/17/2013 – 10:19am Fish from Madison’s lakes contain contaminants that…
Environmental Injustices At Verona Road Continue…
Steve Glass posted an excellent blog, with photos by David Thompson, about the social and environmental injustices related to the ongoing Verona Road Interchange reconstruction project. Several years ago, MEJO…
Still Invisible: The Risks of Eating Locally Caught Fish from Polluted Waters
MEJO’s first project involved toxins in locally caught fish in Madison, Wis. What we had expected to be a two month project–installing fish consumption advisory signs along lake shorelines–turned into…
DNR Now Charging $700 to Answer Questions?
The DNR just doesn’t like to answer questions about Madison-Kipp Corp. MEJO has experienced the art of the “non-answer” answer from DNR for years, but now it has gotten to…