Yesterday, the city of Madison released a tentative plan to mitigate PFAS contamination at one of its wells. Well 15 has been shut down since March 2019, after community members raised concerns over PFAS contamination at the site. The well, located in northeast Madison, is about a mile away from the Truax Air Field — […]
Fighting PFAS contamination one state at a time
Pat Elder, founder of MilitaryPoisons.org, has been tracking PFAS chemical contamination for many years. According to Elder, “If you have an Air National Guard Base, you have problems”. These “forever” chemical contaminants were used for fire training exercises, where pits were dug into the ground, filled with jet fuel, lit on fire, and then trainees […]
An Outline of the F-35 Jet Process in Vermont
As Madison grapples with its selection as a preferred site for a squadron of the Air Force’s newest fighters and faces a mixture of opposition and support from community leaders, the first of the Air Force’s new F-35 fighter jets touched down in Burlington, Vermont last week. To learn more about how the F-35 bed-down […]
