Addendum: Will Wisconsin Air National Guard follow DNR laws on PFAS investigations & cleanup?

A couple weeks ago, we posted this article asking whether the Wisconsin Air National Guard (WIANG) will follow DNR laws…

On March 10, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and his staff will present at a Clean Lakes Alliance “101 Science…

Firefighters spray PFAS-containing foam on exploded transformer at the Madison Gas & Electric Blount St. station in Madison, summer 2019…

Over two and a half years ago, June 2018, we asked DNR to include PFAS monitoring in Dane County airport’s…

Free time after work! (Photo by Maria Powell, Summer 2018) This fish worked very hard cleaning up the PFAS in…

Starkweather Creek flowing through the Darbo Worthington neighborhood, about a mile south of the airport and military base. See  readable…

Starkweather Creek flowing from the Dane County Regional Airport By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal The Department of Natural Resources…

By Oona Mackesey-Green, Northside News (photo by Garth Olmanson) When the test results came back in February showing high levels…

East Madison Community Center (EMCC) Starkweather project team members Mack Rimson, Kenyan Harper, and Elijah Smith (left to right) at…

MEJO and EMCC team meets to discuss Starkweather results in late February (Photo by Jim Powell) *********** Jonathan Gramling of…

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

Photo (Maria Powell): Bridges Golf Course ditch flowing into Starkweather Creek, where the highest levels of PFOS were found Nice…

Earth Day 2020: Fifty years after first Earth Day, toxic environmental pollution still pervasive  (Madison, Wis.)–New PFAS results, released before…

Video by Bob Mincberg.

In October, 2018–after months of asking the city, county, and DNR to test fish in Starkweather Creek–we posted this article…