DNR Now Charging $700 to Answer Questions?
The DNR just doesn’t like to answer questions about Madison-Kipp Corp. MEJO has experienced the art of the “non-answer” answer from DNR for years, but now it has gotten to…
PCEs with your Pie, Anyone? Toxic Plume Under Goodman Center Still Ignored…
A couple weeks ago, I had lunch with a friend in the Ironworks Café at the Goodman Community Center. The food was delicious and the servers were helpful and friendly.…
Oops!!! Maybe a Raingarden for Kipp’s Toxic Runoff Wasn’t a Good Idea After All?
Children Creating Kipp Raingarden in 2006–Mucking Around in Kipp’s PCBs! Original Photo Caption from the 2006 Rock River Newsletter: Whitehorse Middle School science students seemed to enjoy rolling up their…
Kipp’s Contaminant Plume Under Goodman Center–Are Children Exposed? Nobody Knows…
Documents from Madison Kipp’s consultants, released by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) June 21, 2013, show that Kipp’s plume of toxic volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) is beneath the…
Neighbors Settle for $7.2 Million But Many Kipp Environmental Injustices Still Not Addressed
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…
“Shocking” Levels of Contaminants Found at Madison-Kipp in Recent Tests
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—March 25, 2013 “Shocking” Levels of Contaminants Found at Madison-Kipp in Recent Tests Recent tests at Madison-Kipp Corporation reveal “shocking” levels of PCEs in groundwater beneath the factory…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2 Cont.)
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,…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 1)
Environmental Justice Issues at Madison-Kipp and Goodman Community Center Ignored The east side of Madison, Wisconsin, is not a place most people would expect to have environmental justice problems. Toxic…
Community Center and School At-Risk
Madison-Kipp Sued by State and Cited by EPA Madison’s oldest polluter, Madison-Kipp Corp, is being sued by the State of Wisconsin for PCB contamination. In early September, the U.S. EPA…
MEJO Investigates 1
MEJO is reviewing more than a thousand pages of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources documents on Madison Kipp Corp and the adjacent Goodman Community Center (which is built on a…
A better approach?
GONE FISHING! Instead of continuing to beg our environmental & public health agencies to monitor toxins in water and fish, which we’ve learned is a futile endeavor, we’ve decided to…
Fish advisory signs installed to highlight need for official action Environmental justice activists and anglers place signs around Monona Bay
(MADISON, Wis.)—Sixty people gathered at Brittingham Park on Thurs., Sept. 20 to make and install fish consumption advisory signs to help shoreline anglers learn about the toxins in fish caught…
Fishing & Environmental Justice
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) has a mission to educate the community about environmental justice issues, work to address them, and support environmental justice for the benefit of the…
Survey: Shoreline Anglers Eat A Lot of Fish
MEJO has interviewed 129 people and held 12 focus group meetings with 150 participants over the past two years. The meetings were held at neighborhood centers, agency facilities and public…
“Environmental justice, fishing and the problem with our lakes”
A Public Forum by the Madison Environmental Justice Organization Monday, May 5 7:00 – 8:30 pm Madison Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St. (1 block from Capitol Square) Fishing is…