The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney announced Monday.
The lawsuit was filed March 4 in L.A. County Superior Court and names Monsanto Co. and two others, Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC, that resulted from a series of corporate acquisitions and consolidations that spun off the original Monsanto’s businesses, according to Feuer’s office. PCBs were used for decades in industrial and electrical equipment, hydraulic fluids, fireproofing, paper products, ink and paint. They were banned in the United States in 1979 under the Toxic Substances Control Act but remain the subject of extensive litigation.
Despite the ban, Feuer said, storm-water and wastewater systems continue to drain PCBs into Los Angeles Harbor, Santa Monica Bay, lakes and other waterways as well as soils associated with those areas.Eating fish or swimming can expose people to PCBs, Feuer said, but he did not quantify how much exposure would raise health risks.Monsanto is now a subsidiary of Bayer. Pharmacia is a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., and Solutia is a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Co.
This is great! Thank you so much. Monsanto is a total monster!!
CitizenoftheWo4 How about the fields I worked in as a kid farmers spraying DDT CropDusting while we were working in them DDT does not breakdown DDT is still there DDT stays in our systems for life California -
Thank goodness. It’s about time.