Monsanto ceased manufacturing PCBs in 1977, and the chemical was banned in 1979. Davison's office said that the chemicals continued to exist in exterior paint and caulking remaining on buildings.
From March 2013 through August 2014, even though the pesticide was on the company’s lists of chemicals that needed disposal, Monsanto stored 160 pounds of Penncap-M hazardous waste at a facility ...
Like thousands of people across the country, Womack sued Monsanto alleging that chemicals in the weed killer caused her blood cancer. But after a three-week trial in the Philadelphia Court of ...
A Washington state judge has ruled to consolidate several chemical poisoning cases against Monsanto related to a school in ...
Monsanto introduced it in 1974, and its use exploded in 1996 after the company began selling “Roundup-ready” seeds engineered to resist the herbicide. More than 2.6 billion pounds of the chemical were ...
A US jury has found that chemical giant Monsanto knew its Roundup weedkillers were dangerous. A man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer is to receive $289m (£226m ...
While the chemical has been around for decades, people only recently realized it was making its way from farms to the dinner table. Monsanto began selling Roundup – the main active ingredient of ...
French officials are investigating after revelations that agro-chemicals firm Monsanto compiled a potentially illegal file on critics on chemicals and genetically modified crops. The document was ...
But the trial's outcome doesn't mean that Roundup - or its chief chemical, called glyphosate - causes cancer. Instead, it means that members of the jury believed that Monsanto (which recently ...