MEJO founder Dr. Maria Powell wins Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award
On October 26, the Midwest Environmental Advocates held a ceremony naming MEJO founder Maria Powell as one of its 2023…
Everyone deserves a healthy environment
On October 26, the Midwest Environmental Advocates held a ceremony naming MEJO founder Maria Powell as one of its 2023…
MEJO Executive Director Dr. Maria Powell is receiving an environmental justice award from the Midwest Environmental Advocates MARIA POWELL…
[Above: “Golf ditch” flowing through the Bridges Golf course into Starkweather Creek. Bridges Golf Course was built over the Superfund-qualified…
MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong stands next to PFAS “advisory” sign next to heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek just downstream of the Dane…
[Image from the Collaborative on Health & the Environment, CHE] ~~~ City of Madison planners are working with developers from…
[Above: the abandoned Oscar Mayer factory, from the south. On the left side of the photo, you can see the…
The photo above depicts the “gas house” and “bridge” (red) Kraft-Heinz built on the Hartmeyer property west of the factory…
A report compiled by Stacker was published in the Wisconsin State Journal today–Covert contamination: when organizations have failed to notify…
[Above: Egregious sources of pollution on Madison’s north side. Photo-Maria Powell] ***** According to our favorite local corporate greenwashers, Clean…
[Above: giant storm drain that receives stormwater runoff from one of the most contaminated areas at Dane County Regional Airport…
[Above, Dane County Regional Airport constructing a cell phone lot in 2018 where the heavily contaminated Darwin burn pit was…
[Above: surface water flowing through the highly contaminated Darwin burn pit area (adjacent to the airport cell phone lot) into…
[Above: MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong, who grew up in the Truax neighborhood next to Starkweather Creek, speaks to the…
[Above, MEJO intern Ida Jammeh testifying before the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission, July 19, 2018] ***** (See Part…
[Above: Madison north/eastside landfill map, compiled by TRC for the Eastside Water Supply Project in 2012 when the Water Utility…