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 Stories About: Alabama AND health AND pollution and waste AND toxics
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Sweeter Home Alabama
Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement |
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21 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Sweeter Home Alabama Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement Monsanto Co. and its spin-off enterprise, Solutia, agreed yesterday to pay $700 million to settle state and federal lawsuits concerning five decades of PCB pollution in Anniston, Ala. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Monsanto (and later Solutia) used a plant in Anniston to produce PCBs, which are now banned in the U.S. because they are associate ... |
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| Topics: Alabama, health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Solutia-ns
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25 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ... |
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| Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Anniston Get Your Gun
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03 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ... |
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| Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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