PCB

Six new cases were scheduled but have been put on hold as Monsanto/Bayer is hoping to settle all present and future cases for $10-billion. Bayer faces more litigation tied to Monsanto that claim the company polluted dozens of bodies of water decades ago with PCBs.

People, pets and sailors use the Willamette River to cool off in Portland, Ore., Monday, July 6, 2015. The city has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up PCB pollution in the river, which is alleged to have been dispersed by Monsanto. (AP/Don Ryan)

They're the seventh city to sue Monsanto for the same reason.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, and Gov. Jay Inslee head into a news conference where Ferguson announced a lawsuit against agrochemical giant Monsanto over pollution from PCBs, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

An agricultural, biotech giant, Monsanto has become ‘more vulnerable than ever,’ largely due to having an unnaturally-intense poor public image. In recent times, the company has seen successive stock drops and weaker sales of its biotech-created corn and the best-selling herbicide, Roundup. The company had to report falling profits again and again, slashing jobs.

In a recent interview, the CEO of Monsanto, Hugh Grant, claims that Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup is not carcinogenic. This claim goes against numerous evaluations of Roundup and its ingredients concluding that glyphosate – a primary ingredient in Roundup – is indeed carcinogenic.

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton, 1887

The city of Seattle now adds its name to 5 other major US cities that are suing Monsanto over PCBs. Perhaps a tide of similar legal action will finally break Monsanto for good. [1]
Activists may have a tough time shutting down Monsanto for poisoning the planet with GM foods and engaging in the corrupt chemical whirl-go-round that seems to be ruining every conceivable aspect of the natural world, but Monsanto’s karma is catching up, and quick.

This is the fourth such lawsuit Monsanto is facing over PCB contamination in the United States.
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Through a unanimous vote by its City Council, the city of Berkeley, California has decided to hold Monsanto legally liable for polluting the land and water with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). [1]
The council’s 6-0 vote means that Berkeley is joining Oakland, San Jose, San Diego and Spokane, Washington, in filing suits against Monsanto, the agricultural biotech company based in St. Louis, Missouri.