Three years later, Wisconsin hasn’t stopped toxic chemical flow
The following appeared in the December 9, 2018 print edition of the Wisconsin State Journal By Steven Verburg, Wisconsin State…
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Anne G. Chacon, 1942-2018
Dissident, Fearless Environmental Activist, Great Friend Anne Chacon, long-time resident of 138 S. Marquette St, passed away in her Monona…
WDNR to Prioritize PFAS Threat to State Waters–CSWAB Update
By Laura Olah, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger The WI Department of Natural Resources has announced that it is…
Ho-Chunk and Starkweather Event is Huge Success!
The Ho-Chunk and Starkweather Creek history event on July 25, organized by MEJO’s Starkweather Environmental Justice project team, was a…
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The Kipp raingarden PCB saga is not over
Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after…
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Truax Field PFC (PFAS) Contamination 569 Times Over EPA Health Advisory Level; Madison Drinking Water Contaminated?
Last week the Wisconsin DNR released documents pertaining to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)—also commonly called poly- or per-fluoroalkyl substances or PFAS—at…
Send Comments on Environmental Justice Impacts of F-35s to Air National Guard by this Friday, April 6!
Martin Luther King Jr. on balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN just before he was assassinated on April 4,…
F-35 Fighter Jets in Madison: What Would Martin Luther King, Jr. say?
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say about the proposal to locate F-35 supersonic fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field…
Community dinner kicks off new EPA-funded environmental justice project
MEJO and the East Madison Community Center held a community fish dinner on September 30 to close out the Center’s…
Foxconn’s Horrific Worker Safety & Environmental Record Coming to Wisconsin??
“State officials and lawmakers are working on an incentive package to lure giant Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn to Wisconsin,” the…
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) funds Midwest Environmental Justice Organization project
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) has received a grant from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, the grassroots…
Madison-Kipp’s pollution cleanup is nowhere near complete: Part I–Groundwater
Photo: Toxic permanganate discharge from Kipp groundwater extraction and treatment system (GETS) on Aug. 9, 2015 ***** On December 20 2015 the…
More PCBs on city bike path to be excavated October 6-9; City of Madison says no warning signs needed
In June 2015, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) of up to 680 ppm—orders of magnitude above the residential (0.2 ppm) and industrial…
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From the Archives: “The Mean Machine” on Lake Monona, Madison, Wis., 2006
In September 2006, MEJO held a fish advisory sign making party and fish fry at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay…
According to DNR’s strange math, Kipp’s PCE plume has reached or passed Well 8, but has not made it to Lake Monona…What?
Recent updates from DNR and PHMDC (see most recent one here) on the ongoing Kipp pollution nightmare are full of careless…