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The Guardian: PFAS levels in Madison well water greatly underestimated
Today’s Guardian story by Tom Perkins includes Madison well water PFAS results. The story supports–and adds another layer of complexity to–my previous story about how the U.S. EPA-approved analytical methods…
How the Madison Water Utility “disappeared” the PFAS in our drinking water
In 2019 and early 2020, the PFAS levels detected in many of Madison’s municipal drinking water wells were big news–they raised public concerns, and legitimately so (see Wisconsin State Journal…
Honoring Juneteenth Day-Chris Hill, Sierra Club
I got the below email message today from Chris Hill, Senior Campaign Director, Our Wild America, Sierra Club (pictured above). Ms Hill shares some important context and history about why…
Dane County legally fights DNR PFAS stormwater regulations–with help from national anti-regulatory lobbying group
On June 3, I asked “What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn pits?” Today Chris Hubbuch at the Wisconsin State Journal reported…
City of Madison is creating glaring environmental injustices right before our eyes!
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…
Toxic Newspeak from Madison’s past is leaching from Law Park into Lake Monona. Who cares?
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…
What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn pits?
****** 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…
Postscript: Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…
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…
“Renew the Blue”? WTF?
On May 18, Clean Lakes Alliance unveiled “Renew the Blue: A Community
Madison fouled its own nest, Part III: “The wicked witch is dead”
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…
Old NON-NEWS!! PFAS from MGE fire magically disappeared…
******** 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…
Dear Wisconsin State Journal: Who are you serving?
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…
“What we do now may come back to haunt us in years or in decades.”
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…
Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…
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…