Dec 17, 2021 | issues
Following is CSWAB’s testimony at the recent WDNR public hearing on proposed SURFACE WATER criteria for certain PFAS: My name is Laura Olah and I live in Merrimac, Wisconsin, in rural Sauk County, and I am here today on behalf of Citizens for Safe Water Around...
Oct 13, 2021 | issues
By Isaac Wasserman / Wisconsin Watch October 7th, 2021 Melody Homesly, left, and Carnetta Galvin stand on a bridge that crosses Starkweather Creek near Galvin’s home of 16 years in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood of Madison, Wis. Galvin says she was not initially...
Sep 30, 2021 | issues
Today, more than 260 people – representing more than 100 environmental and social justice organizations from the U.S. and its territories – co-signed an open letter calling on U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan to end the dangerous practice of open air burning and...
Sep 13, 2021 | issues
Pyrotechnic compositions of magnesium/Teflon/Viton (MTV) are widely used in military flares and for igniting the solid propellant of a rocket motor, and are comprised of as much as 45% PFAS. The demilitarization of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable flares and other...
Sep 4, 2021 | issues
By Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Dr. Betsy Southerland and Robert Sussman Originally published in THE HILL on July 30, 2021 The high-stakes debate is raging over a broad class of toxic chemicals that contaminate drinking water consumed by tens of millions of people. These...
Sep 2, 2021 | issues
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has asked the U.S. Army at Badger Army Ammunition Plant to reinstate annual testing of certain monitoring wells at the northeastern edge of a groundwater contaminant plume in the Town of Merrimac. The Central Plume...
