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Company: Monsanto Company
Current Parent Company: Bayer
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Penalty: $35,000,000
Year: 2024
Date: October 11, 2024
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: water pollution violation
Mega-Scandal: PCBs
Violation Description: Monsanto Company and two related companies, Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC, agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that its decades-long manufacture and sale of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had contaminated numerous local waterways.
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Los Angeles (CA) City Attorney
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
Facility City: Los Angeles
HQ Country of Current Parent: Germany
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
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