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Burn pits Dane County Regional Airport Department of Defense Department of Natural Resources

What are they hiding? Darwin burn pit reports missing from U.S. Department of Defense, Dane Co, DNR files

October 13, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In a previous post, I wrote: “On February 14, 1996, Gordon D. Hussey, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Branch Engineering Division wrote to Michael Schmoller at…

City of Madison DeJope Development Ho-Chunk Hypocrisy

Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Madison Wisconsin

October 10, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** In recent years, City of Madison leaders have made much ballyhoo about recognizing that the city stands on the Ho-Chunk Nation’s

Dane County Regional Airport Denialism Doublespeak Parody PFCs or PFAS Truax

Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking

October 5, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** A small consulting firm out of Verona, Orin Technologies , claims that it has done what no other scientists or engineers anywhere else in

Burn pits City of Madison Dane County Regional Airport Denialism Department of Defens PFCs or PFAS

DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?

September 29, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** On July 25, 1989, Laurie Egre at the Wisconsin DNR wrote to her colleague Joe Brusca about the “Truax Air National Guard Fire Training Site.” She referred to the…

City of Madison Denialism Monona Terrace stormwater runoff

Monona Terrace, model stormwater pollution control facility?

September 27, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

*** Previous posts described how, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the City of Madison filled the Lake Monona shoreline with refuse to make Law Park, and how the Frank…

Denialism Environmental health Toxic Chemicals

WHO: An estimated two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019

September 27, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Our regulatory system is a failure. If two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019, about the same number of people (or more) likely die from chemical…

City of Madison Denialism Landfills Monona Terrace

“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part II: Let’s build Monona Terrace on top of a carcinogen-leaching landfill in the lake!

September 22, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This piece will be edited in coming days. If you see mistakes or problems, or have something to add, please let me know: mariapowell@mejo.us “EIS committee members received a report…

Burn pits City of Madison Dane County Regional Airport Denialism Doublespeak

Dane County “fixing to get ready” to do something about burn pits

September 20, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

***** Dane County calls its

City of Madison Denialism Law Park landfill

Lo and behold, Law Park landfill is being dug up right before our eyes!

September 19, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

*** Madison’s infamous “hairball” Nolen-Wilson-Willy St intersection was built over an old city landfill, created from the 1930s to the 1950s along the Lake Monona shoreline from Blair Street to…

City of Madison Clean Lakes Alliance Corporate greenwashing

Gee what a surprise! Clean Lakes Alliance presenters neglect to mention Law Park landfill

September 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

******* Curiously, the presentation by Allen Arntsen and Mike Sturm at the September 15 “Clean Lakes Alliance 101 Science Cafe,” on “re-imagining Lake Monona’s shoreline,” omitted a critical piece of…

City of Madison Denialism Obfuscation PFCs or PFAS

Are contractors pumping PFAS & toxic Law Park landfill leachates into Lake Monona?

September 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

******** Some of this is an excerpt from the end of a previous post (since few will read down that far). WisDOT Nolen-E. Wilson-Willy St reconstruction testing at Law Park…

Dane County Parks Denialism Pesticides

“Ecological restoration” in Dane County = Broadcast spraying of poisons

September 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Dane County Parks claims to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM). What a farce. Large swaths of the woods in Lake View Hill Park (a conservancy) that were green and vibrant…

City of Madison Doublespeak Landfills Obfuscation

The City of Madison says it has no Law Park landfill records. Really?

September 14, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

****** As described in detail in the last post, from the 1930s to the 1950s the City of Madison pushed a plethora of wastes—residential garbage, old newspapers, construction debris, and…

City of Madison Landfills

“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part I: Law Park is a landfill

September 6, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

**** On August 15, 2022, Dean Mosiman of the Wisconsin State Journal reported that “A 13-member special committee has chosen three finalists in a plan to reshape the Lake Monona…

Air National Guard Burn pits City of Madison Dane County Regional Airport PFCs or PFAS

Madison, Dane County, & National Guard pass around PFAS hot potato-Wisconsin State Journal

September 3, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Note to readers: Over the years we have posted countless links to online WSJ and Cap times stories (on Madison.com) in our articles. We have occasionally posted entire articles, knowing…

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What are they hiding? Darwin burn pit reports missing from U.S. Department of Defense, Dane Co, DNR files

Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Madison Wisconsin

Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking

DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?

Monona Terrace, model stormwater pollution control facility?

WHO: An estimated two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019

“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part II: Let’s build Monona Terrace on top of a carcinogen-leaching landfill in the lake!

Dane County “fixing to get ready” to do something about burn pits

Lo and behold, Law Park landfill is being dug up right before our eyes!

Gee what a surprise! Clean Lakes Alliance presenters neglect to mention Law Park landfill

Are contractors pumping PFAS & toxic Law Park landfill leachates into Lake Monona?

“Ecological restoration” in Dane County = Broadcast spraying of poisons

The City of Madison says it has no Law Park landfill records. Really?

“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part I: Law Park is a landfill

Madison, Dane County, & National Guard pass around PFAS hot potato-Wisconsin State Journal

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