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A Washington state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Seattle-area school, marking the second big legal win ...
In June 2020, Bayer agreed to pay $650 million to settle local lawsuits related to Monsanto's pollution of public waters in various areas of the United States with PCBs. On December 1, 2020, U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin rejected Bayer's proposed $650 million settlement and allowed Monsanto-related lawsuits involving PCB to proceed. [81]
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.
A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer's Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs ...
Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, was purchased by Bayer in 2018 for $63 billion in what was the largest acquisition in the company’s history. It made the industrial giant the only U.S. supplier ...
Monsanto is founded as a chemical company. 1945–1960. Monsanto begins producing agrochemicals. 1961–1982. Monsanto creates an agricultural division. It manufactures Agent Orange, which is later banned. 1982–2000. Monsanto starts its pivot into biotechnology. It genetically engineers a plant cell in 1982, commercializes the first ...
5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) inhibitor. Roundup is a brand name of herbicide originally produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Prior to the late-2010s formulations, it used broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicides. [2] As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides still represented about 10 percent of Monsanto's ...
Dozens of Vermont school districts have sued chemical giant Monsanto over toxic contamination in educational buildings from now-banned industrial chemicals known as PCBs. Last year, Vermont became ...