Tag: Madison

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Wisconsin Environmental Health Network Conference 2025

February 19, 2025 Jim Powell

Some of you know that Maria was very artistic and one of her passions was using her childhood Barbie in various ways to communicate her (Maria’s) concern about plastic and…

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Resistance Radio to feature “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison”

September 9, 2024 Jim Powell

Maria Powell’s book, “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison,” is the topic of an upcoming Resistance Radio interview with Derrick Jensen on Sunday, September 15 at 5 pm CDT.…

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What does 2021 hold for Oscar Mayer?

January 31, 2021 Jim Powell

As PFAS pollution in Madison is detected in more and more places, and as the government regulating the pollution (WDNR) and the government entities responsible for much of that pollution…

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Low-income housing built on “environmental nightmare,” infectious agents

March 21, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Was the site cleaned up before development? No. ****************** In the last three years, low income apartments, an assisted living facility, and several Habitat for Humanity homes have been constructed…

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PFAS Task Force RIP

December 21, 2019 Jim Powell

As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or does not take–regarding locally-occurring toxic pollution problems. The proposed Madison-Dane…

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PFAS levels in creek are more than “concerning”

December 21, 2019 Jim Powell

The PFOS amount in foam found in Starkweather Creek was 92,000 parts per trillion, far exceeding the laughable EPA advisory threshold level of 70 ppt. The mayor should be more…

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City of Madison not requiring Kipp to measure PCBs in raingarden?

October 1, 2016 Jim Powell

This pictogram was used in this post; the splash pad has since been completed Since August we have tried to get the following information from the City of Madison on…

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Where does the raingarden pipe originate? (Kipp Question # 3896? We’ve lost count…)

September 11, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

At long last, one MEJO question (unlike most we have asked, which remain unanswered) has been answered!! Storm water runoff entering the pipe that empties into the raingarden originates at…

Madison-Kipp Corp. Wisconsin DNR

According to DNR’s strange math, Kipp’s PCE plume has reached or passed Well 8, but has not made it to Lake Monona…What?

September 4, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Recent updates from DNR and PHMDC (see most recent one here) on the ongoing Kipp pollution nightmare are full of careless errors, misleading statements, and critical omissions. Citizens deserve better…

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PHMDC Assures Public Goodman Splash Pad is Perfectly Safe Using Incorrect Numbers

August 30, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

(After this story was posted, PHMDC corrected their numbers in the document linked to below) On August 26 the Wisconsin DNR released a public update including an “Evaluation of the…

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Ignorance is Bliss (Part 3 )

March 8, 2013 Jim Powell

Toxic Contaminants at Madison-Kipp? Don’t Worry, There’s No Risk! Overview: Toxic Contaminants From Above and Below The U.S. EPA Notice of Violation that Madison-Kipp Corporation (Kipp) received in September 2012…

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Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2)

February 1, 2013 Jim Powell

Forgot to follow Wisconsin pollution laws? No worries, DNR doesn’t mind In a previous article (below and here), MEJO explored whether the Goodman Community Center, built on a contaminated former…

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Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2 Cont.)

February 1, 2013 Jim Powell

A Note about the Industrial History of the Goodman and Kipp sites According to Goodman’s 2008 closure documents, previous manufacturing activities at the Goodman Community Center property included metal cutting,…

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Greenwashing and Doublespeak in Wisconsin Highway Plan

December 17, 2011 Jim Powell

The price tag for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation two-decade, three-phase plan for the reconstruction of the Verona Road and West Beltline interchange in Madison , Wis. , has risen…

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“Invisible People, Invisible Risks”

October 11, 2011 Jim Powell

In the new MIT Press book, Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) chronicles its Madison effort to raise local awareness…