John McCracken, for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

John McCracken, for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Belt Magazine, The Capital Times, Tone Madison, Bandcamp Daily, Loudwire, and more. He writes about labor, politics, music, community, and Midwest culture. He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Jeff Lamont next to a creek just where it empties into Green Bay/Lake Michigan. This creek is the most highly PFAS contaminated of all the tributaries that empty into the lake based on a recent study funded by The Sea Grant Institute (a PhD student at UW Madison). They sampled all significant tributaries from the north end of Door County (eastern shores of Green Bay) to Escanaba, MI (the northernmost tributaries along the west side of Green Bay) on Friday, April 16, 2021.
“The middle of a massive contamination”: Residents of Wisconsin region struggle with aftereffects of PFAS
Environment
by John McCracken, for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
05.05.2021
Environment