Just the name itself inspires terrifying images of organically mutated super vegetables with a potential for causing sickness and even death. It has been a hotbed of discussion and debates for at least the past decade, despite continued federal government support from various agencies.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose which attempted to hold Monsanto Co. accountable for the cost of reducing PCB contamination in the San Francisco Bay. The suit against Monsanto, an agricultural biotech company based in St. Louis, sought to recover the cost of cleaning up PCBs, synthetic organic chemicals whose full …
General Electric Co. has agreed to pay Halfmoon $5.6 million to resolve a federal lawsuit the town filed seven years ago seeking reimbursement for the costs of finding an alternate water supply as a result of the company’s PCB dredging project in the upper Hudson River. …
Following the lead of six other West Coast cities, the city of Long Beach on Thursday filed paperwork to sue Monsanto, alleging that the agrochemical giant is responsible for chemical contamination of its water sources, including the Port of Long Beach. According to the complaint, PCBs find their way to Long Beach waters when they leach, leak, off-gas and …
Monsanto now refers to itself as a “sustainable agriculture” company with no concept of what “sustainable” really means, as they recklessly violate all of its principles USDA data shows that glyphosate use has increased 12-fold since 1996, when the first GE crops were introduced. This dramatic increase has cut the monarch butterfly population by 90 percent San Diego is suing Monsanto for …