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…
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[Above, Eric Xiong from the Truax neighborhood fishing in 2018 at the mouth of Madison’s heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek with…
Water Utility General Manager misinforms Madison alders on PFAS in our drinking water
Photo from Newsweek ************* The new General Manager of the Madison Water Utility, Krishna Kumar, was invited to the November…
“It Ain’t Wright”! Madison’s toxic past buried under Monona Terrace (and now eaten by subsistence anglers)
[Above: Anglers at Monona Terrace, photo by Maria Powell, July 2022] ***** My dad grew up in downtown Madison during…
Burke sewage treatment plant
City of Madison
Environmental health
Oscar Mayer
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
What’s draining from these pipes into Starkweather Creek? PFAS & other poisons
Above: Giant drain pipes in Bridges Golf Course, which receive PFAS-contaminated stormwater from the former Truax landfill and Burke sewage…
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental destruction
Environmental health
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Are we sleepwalking?
[Above: Madison Gas & Electric transformer fires in summer 2019 spew black, PFAS-laden smoke over the city] This morning I…
City of Madison
Environmental health
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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,…
Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II
Part 1 of this article told the story of Oscar Mayer & Co. sloshing sludge into Starkweather Creek, the Yahara…
City of Madison
Corporate greenwashing
Earth Day
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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…
Oscar Mayer’s insecticide experiments and manufacturing
By Maria C. Powell, PhD Note: All citations have been removed for ease of reading. If you are interested in…
City of Madison
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Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
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Oscar Mayer contamination must be fully investigated & remediated before redevelopment
For 100 years, Oscar Mayer & Co. and corporations that purchased it have polluted the land and groundwater beneath the…
Male fertility has been plummeting for almost 100 years; Why are we pretending this is a “new” problem?
Today’s New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof (pasted below for those who don’t have NYT subscriptions) raises alarms about…
Does anyone in Madison care about pesticide use? Whatever happened to ecology?
Photo: City of Madison worker applying pesticides along curbs at the Warner Park Center parking lot A letter by Jim…
City of Madison
Environmental health
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Fish
Fish Advisory
PCBs
Pesticides
PFCs or PFAS
Pharmaceuticals
Plastics
Racial disparities
Racism
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
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Wisconsin DNR
Yahara Lakes
Monona Bay, Downtown Madison’s Toxic Cesspool
Fish art on Monona Bay created by Eric Anang. Photo by Amber Arnold, Wisconsin State Journal. Graphic additions by a…
Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say
Image from mindovermetal.co.uk Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say From United Press International (in the Wisconsin State Journal)…