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Sweeter Home Alabama Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement		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 ...
Topics: Alabama, health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Keeping the Chemical Fires Burning Army Begins Burning Chemical Weapons in Alabama		11 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Keeping the Chemical Fires Burning Army Begins Burning Chemical Weapons in Alabama To the dismay of environmentalists and many community members in Anniston, Ala., the U.S. Army on Saturday started incinerating millions of pounds of chemical weapons stored at an army depot in town, a process expected to take seven years. A federal judge cleared the way on Friday when he ruled that environmental and civil-rights groups had faile ...
Topics: Alabama, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mass Destruction of Weapons Chemical Weapons Incineration in Anniston, Ala., Delayed		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mass Destruction of Weapons Chemical Weapons Incineration in Anniston, Ala., Delayed Just as local residents were scrambling for gas masks, the U.S. Army announced yesterday that it would delay startup of a controversial chemical-weapons incinerator in Anniston, Ala., until Friday, when a federal judge can consider an environmental group's request for a temporary restraining order against the facility. ...
Topics: air pollution, Alabama, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Flexing Their Mussels		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Mussels Roughly 1,000 miles of rivers and streams in Alabama could be protected as critical habitat for endangered species, under a new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, which is designed to protect eight endangered and three threatened species of mussels, was great news for environmentalists and bad news ...
Topics: Alabama, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Sweet Home, Alabama		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Home, Alabama A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama is failing to adequately enforce water-pollution laws, thereby paving the way for citizens of the state to sue under the national Clean Water Act. Under the terms of that act, citizens may go to court to enforce the law only if the state has failed to prosecute polluters and only after filing 60-day notice of ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Solutia-ns		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 ...
Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Anniston Get Your Gun		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 ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

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