Lawsuit Against Monsanto for Contamination of San Francisco Bay.

Today, Baron & Budd, Gomez Trial Attorneys, and the City of Berkeley filed the fifth lawsuit of its kind against US agrochemical giant, Monsanto, for contamination of Berkeley’s city storm water and San Francisco Bay with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's). PCBs are man-made chemical compounds that were incorporated in electrical equipment, plastics and construction materials. According to filed court documents, Monsanto was the sole manufacturer of PCBs in the United States for approximately 50 years before Congress banned PCB's in 1979 as they were found to endanger human and environmental health. All this comes amid massive job losses and declining biotech seed and herbicide sales. 

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