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At the invitation of the National Guard Bureau, a group of Madison alders submitted requested comments on May 21 for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) about the proposal to…
Last week the Wisconsin DNR released documents pertaining to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)—also commonly called poly- or per-fluoroalkyl substances or PFAS—at Truax Field’s Wisconsin Air National Guard (WANG) base. One of…
On April 21, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization’s Starkweather team joined the Gambian Youths of Wisconsin and East Madison Community Center youth to clean up trash trapped in a large…
Martin Luther King Jr. on balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN just before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 (AP photo). Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin…
How loud will supersonic F-35 fighter jets be? What munitions will they carry? Throughout the National Guard Bureau’s (NGB) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) scoping session on March 8, a video…
Last night the National Guard and U.S. Air Force held a “scoping” meeting for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that must be developed before “beddown” of F35s at Madison Truax…
Madison Alder Marsha Rummel announced a listening session about the proposal to locate F35s at Madison’s Truax Air National Guard Base on her website. Information below is directly from Alder…
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal The Air National Guard has begun accepting public comments on the scope of a study it will conduct on the expected environmental impact of…
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say about the proposal to locate F-35 supersonic fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field Air National Guard base? In his 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech,…
Photo by Kai Loffelbein. Women melt circuit boards in Guiyu, China The beloved electronic devices that many think they cannot live without are produced and discarded at great environmental and…