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Judge Approves Questionable Cleanup Plan In Monsanto PCB Pollution Case |
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by smann
Email: smann (nospam) stu.parkland.edu (unverified!) |
05 Aug 2003
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Tens of thousands of residents of Anniston, Alabama who are suing Monsanto Company for contaminating their homes and bodies with PCBs were disappointed yesterday when federal judge U.W. Clemon replaced a state-ordered cleanup plan with a partial consent decree negotiated by Monsanto and the Federal EPA. |
Tens of thousands of residents of Anniston, Alabama who are suing Monsanto Company for contaminating their homes and bodies with PCBs were disappointed yesterday when federal judge U.W. Clemon replaced a state-ordered cleanup plan with a partial consent decree negotiated by Monsanto and the Federal EPA. The approved plan replaces a locally supervised cleanup with a federal study that could take several years to complete -- a change, according to the D.C. based Environmental Working Group, that would save Monsanto hundreds of millions of dollars while significantly weakening the redress of the Anniston community. In February 2002 a jury ruled against the Monsanto on multiple charges related to its extreme pollution of Anniston with toxic Polychlorinated Biphenyls, or PCBs. Since then, tens of thousands of Anniston residents have joined class action lawsuits, which are slowly sifting through the courts, with claims of personal injury and property damage. Donald Stewart, attorney for 3500 plaintiffs in the case, had intervened to block the settlement.
Resources:
Environmental Working Group (www.ewg.org)
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