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Monsanto to pay $95M over PCB pollution in Washington state

by Associated Press
| June 24, 2020 12:03 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — The agrochemical giant Monsanto has agreed to pay Washington state $95 million to settle a lawsuit that blamed it for pervasive pollution from PCBs — toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades.

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