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It is with great sadness that we announce that our founder, Maria Powell, has passed away. She will be missed greatly. OBITUARY | MARIA POWELL, 59 Maria Powell, longtime activist…

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Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say

February 10, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Image from mindovermetal.co.uk Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say From United Press International (in the Wisconsin State Journal) Toxic substances endanger the health of virtually every Wisconsin resident,…

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten “giant triplets” alive & well in Madison, Wisconsin

January 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the…

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Utility to build over toxic sludge at former sewage plant on Madison’s Northside

November 13, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate powerhouses, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), plans to build a…

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Report: Watchdogs not looking hard enough for public health hazards in lakes, fish

April 30, 2019 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Touyeng Xiong, MEJO Vice President, at Starkweather Creek tributary in April 2019 (Photo by John Hart, WSJ) By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Madison and Dane County are neglecting to…

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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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The Kipp raingarden PCB saga is not over

June 14, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after PCBs were first found there? Is the adjacent bikepath area…

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Sharon Helmus, your courageous Kipp resistance will be remembered!

April 10, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

One month ago, on March 10, 2018 Sharon Helmus died from complications after colon cancer surgery. She was 78. My husband and I visited Sharon three times in the hospital—our…

Madison-Kipp Corp. Toxic Chemicals Vapor intrusion

Kipp’s Carcinogenic Chemicals Still Vaporizing into Surrounding Neighborhood

March 16, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

The class action lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation, settled in 2013, seems like eons ago. Have Kipp’s pollution problems been resolved? Far from it. PCBs remain in soils under the…

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Polluter Pleased with Paltry Penalty

November 29, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Past excavations of PCBs along bike path next to Madison-Kipp Corporation The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) finally settled the civil action against Madison-Kipp Corporation it initiated in September,…

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Kipp neighbors plan to set up their own air pollution monitors

November 27, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Madison-Kipp Corporation’s die casting and aluminum melting stacks behind homes on Waubesa St. Today Steve Verburg reported in the Wisconsin State Journal that Madison-Kipp Corporation neighbors plan to set…

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Madison polluter doesn’t like what he reads

November 11, 2017 Jim Powell

Graphic from the Nov 2, 2017 Isthmus weekly newspaper The Wisconsin State Journal published an October 28, 2017 article, “Best estimate is plume from Madison-Kipp plant could reach drinking water…

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EPA-funded report recommends pollutant testing for Madison community center

September 23, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: View from inside the Goodman Center’s Ironworks Cafe, looking out to the Kipp factory loading docks. A report from the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO), funded by EPA…

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Madison-Kipp’s PCBs Continue to Pollute Area Along City Bike Path

September 5, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

To learn more, see article by Steve Verburg in the Wisconsin State Journal…

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What ever became of the DOJ lawsuit against Kipp?

May 17, 2017 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In September 2012, the Wisconsin DOJ filed a lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation. It is still unresolved. Why? Because it was always intended as a tool to protect Kipp from…

MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell has passed away