Everyone deserves a healthy environment
[Above: Truax/East Madison Community Center teens with MEJO leaders in early 2020 near Starkweather Creek where we tested PFAS in…
[Above–how chlorinated compounds in soils and shallow groundwater can rise up (vaporize) into homes and businesses above them — a…
For those not familiar with pig terminology… From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition: PORCINE (pronunciation:…
Above: Giant drain pipes in Bridges Golf Course, which receive PFAS-contaminated stormwater from the former Truax landfill and Burke sewage…
[Above: Former nuclear rocket bunkers at Bridges Golf Course, Sept. 27, 2021] ******************** This article is also posted on Historic…
(Above: Sign about 1992-93 Starkweather Creek remediation near O.B. Sherry Park; photo by Maria Powell in 2018) “After 50 years…
Above, drainage into Starkweather Creek from the highly PFAS contaminated Dane County-owned Darwin Rd. burn pit. Back in April of…
(Photo above: Construction during the Madison Verona Rd-W. Beltline highway expansion) The Washington Post reported yesterday: “Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately…
Earth Day 2018: East Madison Community Center kids, Gambian Youths, and MEJO removed trash from large city storm drain discharging…
See the new website by clicking on the image below. PEOPLE’S ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF…
By Madison Northsiders No Bus Barn is the Northside community’s voice for better land use at the previous Oscar Mayer…
Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate…
Photo: Oscar Mayer in 1947 (Wisconsin State Journal archives) ********** Flying in the face of its stated commitment to racial…
Dane County and Madison have some of the worst racial disparities in the nation. Elected officials vow time and again…
Large ditch drains from former sewage plant through Bridges Golf Course and then directly into Starkweather Creek (see above photo)…