Everyone deserves a healthy environment
{Above-Monona Terrace, September 2022. Photo-Maria Powell ~~~ See the postscript to this piece As described in Part III, Monona Terrace…
In a previous post, I wrote: “On February 14, 1996, Gordon D. Hussey, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of…
[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…
Our regulatory system is a failure. If two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019, about the…
[Above: surface water flowing through the highly contaminated Darwin burn pit area (adjacent to the airport cell phone lot) into…
**** [This piece will likely be edited/added to in coming days…] On August 15, 2022, Dean Mosiman of the Wisconsin…
[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…
In fall 2021, a colleague noticed this letter on the DNR’s BRRTS website, from the DNR to residents of a…
[People from Milwaukee fishing “the wall” at Monona Terrace in July 2022. Photo-Maria Powell] *** “Celebrity, swag, people and cash”…
[Above: Madison north/eastside landfill map, compiled by TRC for the Eastside Water Supply Project in 2012 when the Water Utility…
On June 3, I asked “What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn…
[Above: Starkweather Creek storm drains from Dane County Regional Airport; photo Maria Powell] ****** Last October, Wisconsin Watch published “Something…
This part of the “Madison fouled its own nest” series is based entirely on articles by Wisconsin State Journal reporter…