Article: Shelby, Roden & Cartee Announce Solutia, Monsanto and Pharmacia Settle PCB Anniston Cases for $700 Million.

Article: US$700 million deal announced in Anniston PCBs ...
AP Worldstream;  August 21, 2003 ;     694 words ... ... Solutia spokesman Glenn Ruskin said. The Anniston plant made PCBs near a neighborhood in west Anniston for ... the end of Monsanto's toxic legacy in Anniston. Monsanto invented PCBs in Anniston in 1929, lawyers for the homeowners said ...

Article: Firms Reach $700 Million Deal with Anniston, Ala., ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... settled for $43.7 million. The Anniston plant made PCBs near a neighborhood in west Anniston for decades while operating under the ... the public. Monsanto manufactured PCBs for 40 years in Anniston. It halted production in 1971, eight ...

Transcript: Profile: Residents of Anniston, Alabama, continue to ...
NPR All Things Considered;  September 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Profile: Residents of Anniston, Alabama, continue ... settlement with Monsanto over PCBs Host: MELISSA BLOCK ... house she grew up in. PCBs are electrical insulators ... Monsanto manufactured PCBs in Anniston for nearly 40 years ...

Article: Jury deem pollution from plant a public nuisance. ...
Chemistry and Industry;  March 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Anniston, Alabama. Circuit Judge ... pollution from a plant making PCBs. which was operated ... of 3500 residents of Anniston and business owners are ... term health effects from PCBs.' she said. Gary Barton ...

Article: ....While producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as ...
The Food Institute Report;  January 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory (in Anniston, AL), Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic ... west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills, reported The Washington ...

Article: Solutia Settles PCB Suit.(polychlorinated biphenyls exposure case ...
Chemical Market Reporter;  April 30, 2001 ;     557 words ... ... exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) produced at Monsanto's Anniston, Ala., manufacturing site. Solutia ... spread by Monsanto, which manufactured PCBs in Anniston until 1972. The PCBs entered the creek in Anniston through ...

Article: Judge Regrets Actions in Court in Anniston, Ala., ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... quite like what we went through on Tuesday" in Anniston, Ala., the lawyer said. Neither has the judge ... for contamination of the area around its plant in Anniston, where Monsanto made PCBs -- polychlorinated byphenyls -- from 1935 to ...