Tag: Dioxin

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PFAS, COVID and potential environmental racism

May 4, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Brad Geyer, Safe Skies, Clean Water The draft environmental impact study acknowledged that there will be “significant disproportionate impacts to low-income and minority populations as well as children.” Although…

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Anne G. Chacon, 1942-2018

December 2, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Dissident, Fearless Environmental Activist, Great Friend Anne Chacon, long-time resident of 138 S. Marquette St, passed away in her Monona apartment the weekend before Thanksgiving, after struggling with liver disease…

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Toxic PFAS is in Starkweather Creek; will anyone test the fish?

October 6, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Fish caught by children at the mouth of Starkweather Creek in June 2018 (they did not eat the fish). A MEJO post last May linked to an Air National Guard…

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Madison-Kipp’s pollution cleanup is nowhere near complete: Part I–Groundwater

January 6, 2016 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Toxic permanganate discharge from Kipp groundwater extraction and treatment system (GETS) on Aug. 9, 2015 ***** On December 20 2015 the Wisconsin State Journal published a front page article…

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More PCBs on city bike path to be excavated October 6-9; City of Madison says no warning signs needed

September 23, 2015 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In June 2015, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) of up to 680 ppm—orders of magnitude above the residential (0.2 ppm) and industrial (0.7 ppm) direct contact standards—were found in soils next to…

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Madison-Kipp Clean Air Act violations: MEJO response to Kipp CEO

June 19, 2015 Jim Powell

Madison-Kipp Corp President/CEO Tony Koblinski responded to our post regarding the EPA consent decree for his company’s Clean Air Act violations. Here is our response: Dear Mr. Koblinski: We offer…

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EPA fines Madison-Kipp for air violations; Goodman Center gets A/C in the deal!

June 13, 2015 Jim Powell

The view of Madison-Kipp Corp. from the Goodman Community Center; PCBs are being removed from the rain garden in the foreground The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Madison-Kipp Corporation…

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City to Lease Rain Garden to Polluter

November 22, 2014 Jim Powell

(High resolution version of above graphic here) SUMMARY: The City of Madison wishes to extend a lease with Madison-Kipp Corp. through 2023 that will allow Kipp to control the rain…

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“Forgotten” Kipp Toxic Hotspot Bubbles to the Surface Next to Goodman Community Center

June 12, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Now that the neighborhood class action lawsuit against Kipp is settled and Madison-Kipp has paid a total of $7.2 million dollars to homeowners near the factory, Kipp and government agencies…

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Kipp’s Former Raingarden–Now SludgeGarden–Even More Toxic Than We Knew…

May 2, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Yesterday we obtained a Figure from the City of Madison with more PCB data from soils excavated from the Kipp raingarden, on City of Madison property just north of Kipp,…

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Is Kipp A Safe Place to Work? Cleaning Employee Fired by Contractor for Asking

April 13, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

(Madison-Kipp Worker Pouring Molten Aluminum) –Madison Kipp Corporation’s non-unionized manufacturing workers, and contractors brought in to clean and do other work at the factory, are at ground zero for exposures…

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High Levels of PCBs Being Excavated from Kipp’s Floors—Are Workers Protected?

February 19, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

(Two Kipp Workers, photo by John Hart, Madison.com). According to a recent letter from Kipp to the DNR, Kipp has been excavating inside the factory, and finding PCBs in concrete…

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Fireworks Over Downtown Madison Pose No Long-term Health Risks? We Disagree

August 6, 2013 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Jeff Lafferty of Public Health Madison Dane County (PHMDC) assured the public in recent newspaper articles that the huge Rhythm & Booms fireworks show planned for downtown Madison in 2014…

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Neighbors Settle for $7.2 Million But Many Kipp Environmental Injustices Still Not Addressed

July 16, 2013 Jim Powell

The immediate neighbors around the Madison-Kipp Corp. factory settled their two class action lawsuits on Monday, July 15. The immediate neighbors and their attorneys will receive a total of $7.2…

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Ignorance is Bliss (Series Supplement)

May 8, 2013 Jim Powell

Remember the Kipp Dioxin Debacle? Lo and Behold, Kipp Has Been Producing Dioxins All This Time! (shhhh…..) Dioxin from Kipp’s Stacks? An “Urban Myth” of “Misinformed Activists”! The issue of…