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City of Madison is creating glaring environmental injustices right before our eyes!

June 13, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

The picture says it all. The city says this is about social equity and creating more affordable housing. Yes, Madison desperately needs more affordable housing. But is this a healthy…

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Toxic Newspeak from Madison’s past is leaching from Law Park into Lake Monona. Who cares?

June 12, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

I was pleasantly surprised to read the editorial headline in today’ Wisconsin State Journal: A surface parking lot for Downtown lakefront? Really? It begins: “Madison’s beautiful lakefront in the heart…

Dane County Regional Airport PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes Starkweather Creek

What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn pits?

June 3, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

****** Last October, Wisconsin Watch published “Something has to be done’ about Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways” by Isaac Wasserman. What is “progressive” and “green” Dane County…

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Postscript: Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…

May 31, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This is a postscript to a previous post– “Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…” Buried in the Clean Lakes Alliance’s latest report “Renew the Blue” is a…

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“Renew the Blue”? WTF?

May 26, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On May 18, Clean Lakes Alliance unveiled “Renew the Blue: A Community

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Madison fouled its own nest, Part III: “The wicked witch is dead”

May 24, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This part of the “Madison fouled its own nest” series is based entirely on articles by Wisconsin State Journal reporter Ron Seely (all linked in the below article). There is…

Madison Gas & Electric PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes

Old NON-NEWS!! PFAS from MGE fire magically disappeared…

May 21, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

******** About a year ago, I wrote that PFAS from the 2019 ATC fire at MGE was still oozing, draining, and sloshing into Lake Monona, while the company was asking…

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Dear Wisconsin State Journal: Who are you serving?

May 19, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Dear WSJ: Today’s story by Dean Mosiman, “National design heavyweights want to help reimagine Lake Monona waterfront,” was notable for what it didn’t say and questions it didn’t ask. Mosiman…

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Madison fouled its own nest, Part II: “A Loss of Public Trust” in the Madison Water Utility

May 10, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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“What we do now may come back to haunt us in years or in decades.”

May 6, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

If you think the concerns raised in yesterday’s post about skyrocketing Madison and Dane County growth (“Will Madison ever say enough is enough”?) are ill-informed or exaggerated, read what Wisconsin…

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Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…

May 5, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

See Postcript to this article here. ********** Madison cannot “have its cake and eat it too,” as the saying goes. Or maybe I should say “we can have our cake…

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Will ANYONE ever clean up the PFAS-soaked burn pits at the Dane County Airport?

April 28, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: Dane County Regional Airport development sign in front of the unremediated Darwin burn pit site. ***** This post may be changed/updated… About one year ago, I posted this: Again,…

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We all are witness to the rape of the world–Tracy Chapman

April 26, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

“The Rape Of The World” By Tracy Chapman Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the world This the…

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Bridges Golf Course built over Madison’s Secret Superfund Site

April 26, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: The “golf ditch” flowing through Bridges Golf Course into Starkweather Creek ******* The last post, Madison’s Secret Superfund Site, described the long history of the Truax Landfill on Madison’s…

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Madison’s Secret Superfund Site

April 4, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

**** Madison’s Secret Superfund Site: Truax Landfill Sources for this article-see footnote below** From the early 1900s through

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City of Madison is creating glaring environmental injustices right before our eyes!

Toxic Newspeak from Madison’s past is leaching from Law Park into Lake Monona. Who cares?

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