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…

Eken Park Resistance leaders and community members put jars of local waters in front of the City-County Building at the…

Oscar Mayer in 1947 (Wisconsin State Journal photo) In May 2020, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) contracted by…

Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate…

By Brad Geyer, Safe Skies, Clean Water The draft environmental impact study acknowledged that there will be “significant disproportionate impacts…

Maria Powell, Cap Times op-ed Photo above: Starkweather Creek going through Truax Field The final environmental impact statement (EIS) on…

PFAS hits in Madison drinking water wells By Steven Verburg, for the Isthmus In a Jan. 16 guest column in…

On January 9, 2020, the Isthmus published a cover story on PFAS: “The fight for safe drinking water; Will Madison…

Graphic from ISTHMUS By Kori Feener, Isthmus Maria Powell used to believe that science would prevail. She co-founded the Midwest…

As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or…

Photo of smoke plumes over Lake Monona from MGE and UW campus transformer fires, July 19, 2019. How much PFAS…

Large ditch drains from former sewage plant through Bridges Golf Course and then directly into Starkweather Creek (see above photo)…

On Saturday, March 16, at the East Madison Community Center, Madison Water Utility (WU) and Public Health Madison Dane County…

By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Madison is shutting down a North Side drinking water well that has been contaminated…

Photo: Madison Well 15 By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Testing results released Monday show a slight increase in hazardous…