$36.5m from Monsanto water pollution settlement headed to Bay Area cities, Alameda County
One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies is set to pay Bay Area cities tens of millions of dollars after settling a class action lawsuit involving PCBs, a toxic chemical compound manufactured by Monsanto that seeped for decades into storm water, sediment and the area’s rivers, streams and lakes.
The lawsuit, which stretches back to March 2015 in the U.S. District Court for Central California, centered around the chemical compound polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Between the 1930s and 1970s, Monsanto was the sole manufacturer of PCBs, which were used in a variety of industrial and household uses.
San Jose City Attorney Nora Frimann described the settlement as “a novel application of the theory of public nuisance” against a manufacturer for stormwater contamination.
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