San Diego, Port Authority Sue Monsanto To Finance Cleanup of PCBs in Bay

摘要

The City of San Diego and its Port Authority are suing Monsanto Co. in federal court, asking a judge to order the company to pay for the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls in San Diego Bay (San Diego Unified Port Dist. v. Monsanto Co., S.D. Cal., No. 3:15-cv-00578, 3/13/15). The case centers on Monsanto's manufacturing of PCBs, which the Environmental Protection Agency has determined are a probable carcinogen. San Diego is arguing that the company produced these chemicals, which it sold under the trade name Aroclor, well after it was widely known that they were hazardous to human health and the environment. The city's lawsuit cites internal Monsanto documents from the 1960s that show company officials were aware that PCBs posed a threat.