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
A miracle!?! PFAS is no longer a problem in Madison’s drinking water, says Water Utility
But is it true? No. In 2019 and 2020, the PFAS found in Madison’s drinking water was a big deal. See Wisconsin State Journal articles here, here, and here. In…
Are eastside Madison residents breathing poisonous vapors? Does anyone care?
Today the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an article about the very unfortunate situation Madison resident Kenny Koeppler landed in by accident. In 1987, Koeppler
“It Ain’t Wright”! Madison’s toxic past buried under Monona Terrace (and now eaten by subsistence anglers)
***** My dad grew up in downtown Madison during the 1930s, 40s and 50s in a home overlooking Lake Monona. He and his siblings fished and swam in the lake…
Is UW-Madison still “diversity doctoring” its promo photos?
Above: promotional photo in the Winter 2021 University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni magazine, OnWisconsin. (This photo is not in the electronic version of the magazine. I took a photo of my…
Burke sewage treatment plant
Environmental health
Madison
Oscar Mayer
Racial disparities
Trash
Truax landfill
Porcine Pollution Solutions: A stinky blast from Madison’s sordid past
For those not familiar with pig terminology… From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition: PORCINE (pronunciation: pôr′sīn″), adjective: Of or resembling swine or a pig. Of…
Lo and behold, the Madison-Kipp poison plume is still there!
For anyone who believes that Madison Kipp’s giant plume of toxic chlorinated solvents (and plethora of other poisons) under the increasingly hip
Burke sewage treatment plant
City of Madison
Environmental health
Oscar Mayer
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
What’s draining from these pipes into Starkweather Creek? PFAS & other poisons
Above: Giant drain pipes in Bridges Golf Course, which receive PFAS-contaminated stormwater from the former Truax landfill and Burke sewage plant–and former Oscar Mayer factory area–before discharging via the “golf…
The Cold War in Madison: Nuclear missiles assembled and stored at Truax Field
******************** This article is also posted on Historic Madison, Inc. The Cold War in Madison: Nuclear missiles assembled and stored at Truax Field In the heart of the Cold War,…
How contaminated is Madison’s drinking water compared to other cities?
As reported by Sharon Udasin in The Hill, Environmental Working Group’s recently released 2021 Tap Water Database compares contaminant levels in drinking water across all 50 states and Washington, D.C.…
What is being done about Starkweather Creek? The military is spewing (or burying) PFAS contamination, proposing experimental “pilot” studies
“Something has to be done immediately” about Starkweather Creek, Melody Homesley, a 16-year resident of the Darbo Worthington neighborhood, told Isaac Wasserman when he interviewed her for his Wisconsin Watch…
EPA PFAS “Strategic Roadmap” is no panacea
Sharon Lerner’s recent Intercept article– People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action
“After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due.”
(Above: Sign about 1992-93 Starkweather Creek remediation near O.B. Sherry Park; photo by Maria Powell in 2018) “After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due?” Too bad this…
Dane County
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
“‘Something has to be done’ about Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways”–Wisconsin Watch
Above–MEJO’s Ida Jammeh (left) talking with residents of Darbo-Worthington neighborhood about Starkweather Creek in 2018 (photo by Maria Powell). Learn more about our Starkweather project here. ********* When we started…
John Oliver: “The world is soaked in the Devil’s Piss” (PFAS)
PFAS is not at all funny. But comedian John Oliver’s story of how the world came to be soaked in PFAS–“the Devil’s Piss”–is hilarious. Check it out here:
Environmental destruction
Environmental health
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
PFCs or PFAS
Wastewater Treatment
How much PFAS is the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District spreading on Dane County farmland? Does anyone care?
How much PFAS is in Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) sludge, applied to 5000 acres of Dane County farmland? From MMSD’s (TRC) Sept. 30, 2021 report: MMSD Class A Biosolids:…