Cancer
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Plastics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
How much PFAS is in the muck Dane County’s Dragon Dredge will suck? Where will it go?
Dane County’s Dragon Dredge (John Hart Photos, Wisconsin State Journal) “Dragon Dredge’ starts work on next phase” by Emily Hamer in today’s Wisconsin State Journal begins: “Dane County on Thursday…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish Advisory
PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
Racial disparities
UPDATE: Yahara Lakes fish advisories reflect “two Madisons”
Above: Eric Xiong from the Truax apartments fishing at Starkweather Creek where it enters Lake Monona in Olbrich Park (Photo, Maria Powell) This story has been updated from the previous…
Madison 100 years ago: Privileged, pretentious…and polluted
What’s the saying? Some things never change? ************ 1921: In America’s “Model City,” Lake Monona is “a cistern for foul toads to know and gender in” In the midst of…
Clean Lakes Alliance: How can we help our PFAS-poisoned lakes & fish?
How can we help our PFAS-poisoned Yahara lakes and fish? Clean Lakes Alliance and its corporate sponsors–wealthy corporations, chemical producers, gas and electric utilities, developers, law firms, banks–recommend that we…
Fish from all Yahara lakes except Mendota and Wingra on advisory for PFAS
DNR: Fish from Yahara chain of lakes contaminated with PFAS; anglers warned to limit consumption Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal Health officials are warning anglers to limit consumption of fish…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental destruction
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Dane County attorney assures supervisors that PFAS at Truax Field is under control
Above, Amy Tutwiler, attorney with Dane County Corporation Counsel Last week Abigail Becker of the Cap Times reported on the June 3 special county board meeting about the PFAS mess…
We all are witness to the rape of the world–Tracy Chapman
“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…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental health
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Again, Madison and Dane County pass the buck to the military on cleaning up burn pits. Why?
The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county, and military from the 1950s-1980s. Above, the airport’s cell phone…
Mayor responds to Sustainable Madison Committee’s PFAS Recommendations
Eken Park Resistance leaders and community members put jars of local waters in front of the City-County Building at the Water is Life event, April 2021 On May 23, Chris…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Yahara Lakes
DNR repeatedly engages public in Marinette & Peshtigo on PFAS–but ignores Madison
Heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek water and sediments flood over a backyard garden in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood in Madison, about a mile south of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax…
City of Madison
Environmental destruction
Madison
Oscar Mayer
PCBs
Pesticides
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Wastewater Treatment
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wetlands
Wisconsin DNR
Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II
The latest installment of Maria’s Powell’s saga of a corporation and the city that loved it…to its own detriment. OSCAR MAYER SLUDGE HISTORY, PART II <– NEW OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE…
Air National Guard
Department of Defense
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
F-35
Fighter jets
Military
Racial Justice
Truax
Fighter jets, environmental education, and social justice do not mix
On May 10, F-16s from Madison’s Air National Guard Truax Field took off while MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong was teaching kids from the East Madison Community Center about birds, trees, and…
City of Madison
Corporate greenwashing
Earth Day
Environmental health
Oscar Mayer
Pesticides
Toxic Chemicals
Wastewater Treatment
Oscar Mayer’s Earth Day, 1970: Spray chemical perfumes on sewage stench!
In 1970, just before Madison’s first Earth Day, Oscar Mayer installed a mile-long system that misted artificial chemical perfumes around its sludge lagoons–after decades of neighborhood complaints about the sewage…
Air Pollution
City of Madison
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Racial disparities
TCE
Toxic Chemicals
Worker health and safety
May Day! May Day! Madison-Kipp workers
Above: Workers in Kipp factory Is anyone assessing risks to Madison Kipp workers? There’s a plume of highly toxic PCE and TCE under the plant vaporizing into the air workers…
Government won’t test air pollution in the Madison-Kipp neighborhood, so citizens are doing it themselves
Above: View of Madison-Kipp’s Fair Oaks factory from the low-income apartments across the street. Clean Air Madison, MEJO, and Kipp neighborhood activists tried for many, many years–to no avail–to convince…