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Monsanto admitted a senior manager at Monsanto directed an Indonesian consulting firm to give a $50,000 bribe to a high-level official in Indonesia's environment ministry in 2002 related to the agency's assessment on its genetically modified cotton. Monsanto told the company to disguise an invoice for the bribe as "consulting fees".
Baker is from Anniston, Alabama. [1] As children, he and his younger brother Terry would play in ditches and cross the water in the ditches that were used for the Monsanto plant run-off. [citation needed] In 1970 [2] his brother died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 17. Baker believes that this was caused by PCBs in the environment. [3]
The World According to Monsanto is a 2008 film directed by Marie-Monique Robin. Originally released in French as Le monde selon Monsanto , the film is based on Robin's three-year-long investigation into the corporate practices around the world of the United States multinational corporation , Monsanto .
Ending an eight-year legal battle, chemical giant Monsanto has agreed to a $160-million settlement with Seattle for its part in polluting a river that runs through the heart of the city with ...
A Washington state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Seattle-area school, marking the second big legal win ...
The Monsanto Years is the 37th studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young and the American rock group Promise of the Real, released on June 29, 2015 on Reprise Records. A concept album which criticizes the agribusiness company Monsanto , [ 2 ] it is Young's thirty-fifth studio album and the third by Promise of the Real.
Mandatory blood testing and a 2004 law requiring lead paint inspections have paid dividends, contributing to a big drop in the number of reported poisoning cases each year. But for children in many of the poorest parts of the city — areas populated overwhelmingly by minorities and immigrants — the risk of lead poisoning remains stubbornly ...
Thousands of individuals were exposed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, when a chemical weapons training center and a nearby Monsanto factory disposed of chemicals into a creek over several decades. [9] Many individuals [quantify] settled out of court, but a class-action suit is still ongoing. [10]