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  1. 2022

    Los Angeles files lawsuit over alleged PCB contamination

    Lawsuit filed

    Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company, Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC, alleging that Monsanto polluted city waterways with PCBs and seeking repayment of cleanup-related costs and abatement of the alleged public nuisance. These are allegations in the lawsuit.

    Stated objective. Repay the city's cost to address PCB contamination and abate the alleged public nuisance until PCBs stop posing a threat to public health and the environment.

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    • The city's lawsuit is seeking repayment of the city's cost to address PCB contamination and to require Monsanto to abate the public nuisance until the PCBs stop posing a threat to public health and the environment.
    • The lawsuit alleges that Monsanto polluted the city's waterways with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
    • The lawsuit was filed Friday against three companies that Monsanto spun off into acquisitions and consolidations in the 1990s -- Monsanto Company, now owned by Bayer; Solutia Inc., now owned by Eastman Chemical Company; and Pharmacia LLC., now owned by Pfizer.
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