The only place low income people can afford to live in Madison? Whose fault is that?
[Above: the abandoned Oscar Mayer factory, from the south. On the left side of the photo, you can see the…
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WTF? DHS assesses health risks at proposed affordable housing site with “industrial” standards
[Above: Wisconsin state seal and logo–FORWARD. This post describes how the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is helping developers…
Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons with affordable housing (Part I)
[Above: Site of the proposed affordable and senior housing next to the old Kraft Heinz-Oscar Mayer site] This story has…
How environmental injustices are created in privileged, “progressive” Madison
The photo above depicts the “gas house” and “bridge” (red) Kraft-Heinz built on the Hartmeyer property west of the factory…
Lessons not learned by the Madison Water Utility?
A report compiled by Stacker was published in the Wisconsin State Journal today–Covert contamination: when organizations have failed to notify…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Madison Wisconsin
[Above: Two–some say three–hundred-year-old oak trees in an Indigenous burial area on Madison’s North Side near where California-based developers are…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part IV: “Madison Underground, Contamination Central”
[Above: Madison north/eastside landfill map, compiled by TRC for the Eastside Water Supply Project in 2012 when the Water Utility…
City of Madison is creating glaring environmental injustices right before our eyes!
[Northsider Dave Bierman standing where the City of Madison plans to locate affordable housing near the old Kraft-Heinz/Oscar Mayer factory.…
Postscript: Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…
[Above, Dane County suburbs, from Channel3000, Mary Erpenbach] This is a postscript to a previous post– “Will Madison ever say…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part II: “A Loss of Public Trust” in the Madison Water Utility
[Above: A plan by John Nolen from 1910 shows a vision for Madison as a model city. The plan shows…
Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…
See Postcript to this article here. ********** Madison cannot “have its cake and eat it too,” as the saying goes.…
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defens
Oscar Mayer
Starkweather Creek
Superfund
Truax landfill
Madison’s Secret Superfund Site
[Above: Truax Landfill, summer 2021, looking south from Bridges golf course–abandoned nuclear rocket bunkers in the center, a landfill monitoring…
Madison fouled its own nest (Part 1)
[Photo from Wisconsin State Journal “The Yahara Lakes | Giants Among Us” series by Steve Verburg] This article is part…
Breaking News! Starkweather Creek is as stagnant and PFAS-poisoned as ever!
[Above, Starkweather Creek draining from Dane County Regional Airport and Truax Air National Guard base. Photo-Maria Powell] *** Last week…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
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Public Health Madison Dane County
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we…