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
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental destruction
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Toxic Chemicals
Are we sleepwalking?
This morning I came across an excellent–though very disturbing–Mongabay article, part of a series: Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary? The answer is unequivocal: YES Mongabay…
The under-reported role of toxic substance exposures in the COVID-19 pandemic
From the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (full article here or here) By Kostoff RN, Briggs MB, Porter AL, Hernández AF, Abdollahi M, Aschner M, Tsatsakis A. Abstract Coronavirus disease…
Illicit discharges of lies? The ongoing saga of Dane County’s long overdue stormwater ordinance
Above, drainage into Starkweather Creek from the highly PFAS contaminated Dane County-owned Darwin Rd. burn pit. Back in April of this year, I posted a long saga about Dane County’s…
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…