“Get out of my freakin’ way!” bikers scream at Monona Terrace anglers. Why?
[People fishing at “the wall” at Monona Terrace on July 27, 2022. Photo: Maria Powell] Last week I talked to…
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Angler at Monona Terrace: Bikers “think they own the space,” powers-that-be “don’t care”
[Above: Bikers and anglers at “the wall” at Monona Terrace, July 19, 2022. Photo-Maria Powell] *** Many subsistence anglers fish…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part IV: “Madison Underground, Contamination Central”
[Above: Madison north/eastside landfill map, compiled by TRC for the Eastside Water Supply Project in 2012 when the Water Utility…
Dane County legally fights DNR PFAS stormwater regulations–with help from national anti-regulatory lobbying group
On June 3, I asked “What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn…
Toxic Newspeak from Madison’s past is leaching from Law Park into Lake Monona. Who cares?
I was pleasantly surprised to read the editorial headline in today’ Wisconsin State Journal: A surface parking lot for Downtown…
Postscript: Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…
[Above, Dane County suburbs, from Channel3000, Mary Erpenbach] This is a postscript to a previous post– “Will Madison ever say…
“Renew the Blue”? WTF?
[Above: Over 300 people waiting breathlessly for the unveiling of “Renew the Blue” at the $100 per seat ($1000 per…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part III: “The wicked witch is dead”
This part of the “Madison fouled its own nest” series is based entirely on articles by Wisconsin State Journal reporter…
Dear Wisconsin State Journal: Who are you serving?
[Above: People fishing at “the wall” at Monona Terrace in July 2022. Photo-Maria Powell] Dear WSJ: Today’s story by Dean…
Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…
See Postcript to this article here. ********** Madison cannot “have its cake and eat it too,” as the saying goes.…
Will ANYONE ever clean up the PFAS-soaked burn pits at the Dane County Airport?
Above: Dane County Regional Airport development sign in front of the unremediated Darwin burn pit site. ***** This post may…
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defens
Oscar Mayer
Starkweather Creek
Superfund
Truax landfill
Madison’s Secret Superfund Site
[Above: Truax Landfill, summer 2021, looking south from Bridges golf course–abandoned nuclear rocket bunkers in the center, a landfill monitoring…
Breaking News! Starkweather Creek is as stagnant and PFAS-poisoned as ever!
[Above, Starkweather Creek draining from Dane County Regional Airport and Truax Air National Guard base. Photo-Maria Powell] *** Last week…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we…
Madison’s upside-down environmental justice approach = environmental injustice (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we forget, Part II).
[Above: Truax/East Madison Community Center teens with MEJO leaders in early 2020 near Starkweather Creek where we tested PFAS in…