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01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www .annistonal .gov. Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]
Website. www.solutia.com. 318 Monsanto St., East St Louis, Il. Solutia Inc. was an American manufacturer of materials and specialty chemicals including polyvinyl butyral (PVB), ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) interlayers for laminated glass, aftermarket window films, protective barrier and conductive films ...
The Monsanto Company ( / mɒnˈsæntoʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate -based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered crops.
Dioxin. In a case that ran from February 1984 through October 1987, Monsanto was the defendant in the longest civil jury trial in U.S. history, Kemner v. Monsanto. The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri.
Swann Chemical Company. The Swann Chemical Company was an American chemical company started by Theodore Swann, described by one historian as "a flamboyant Birmingham mogul and New South industrialist." [1] Swann Chemical first operated a chemical manufacturing plant in Anniston, Alabama where PCBs were first made on an industrial scale after ...
The city of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against agrochemical giant Monsanto and two other companies over PCB contamination in city waterways. In a statement on Friday, Los Angeles City ...
Baker is from Anniston, Alabama. [1] As children, he and his younger brother Terry would play in ditches and cross the water in the ditches that were used for the Monsanto plant run-off. [citation needed] In 1970 [2] his brother died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 17. Baker believes that this was caused by PCBs in the environment. [3]
Donald Wilbur Stewart (born February 8, 1940) is a former American lawyer who was a United States Senator from Alabama from 1978 to 1981. He succeeded Maryon Pittman Allen and was succeeded by Jeremiah Denton. [1] Prior to Stewart's time in the Senate, he served in the Alabama Senate and the Alabama House of Representatives.