The state has reached a settlement with former agrochemical company Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, for contaminating 1,300 miles of streams and 3,600 acres of lakes with PCBs over five decades.
A representative for Monsato replied
or wrongdoing, for $99.5 million plus $500,000 “in costs.” The statement said Monsanto stopped producing PCBs in 1977 and “never manufactured or disposed of PCBs in Pennsylvania’s environment.” But it was Monsanto that started in 1929 to make, market, sell, and distribute 99% of the PCBs eventually used throughout the U.S. The chemical compounds was used in paints, caulks, inks, dyes, lubricants, sealants, plasticizers, coolants, hydraulic fluids, fireproofing, and industrial electrical equipment such as capacitors and transformers. Monsanto also infamously manufactured dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, which was banned in the U.S.
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