The Monsanto plant in Nitro produced herbicides, rubber products and other chemicals. The plant’s production of the defoliant Agent Orange created dioxin as a toxic chemical byproduct.
Dioxin has been linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, endometriosis, infertility and suppressed immune functions. It builds up in tissue over time, so even small exposures can accumulate to dangerous levels.
The Exponent Telegram - A judge gave final approval Friday to a settlement between chemical manufacturer Monsanto Co. and thousands of West Virginia residents over pollution claims.
A $93 million settlement was reached last February with residents who said Monsanto polluted their community by burning waste from production of the defoliant Agent Orange.
St. Louis-based Monsanto had agreed to pay up to $84 million for medical monitoring and $9 million to clean up 4,500 homes. Monsanto also agreed to pay legal fees.
The litigation began with a lawsuit by plant workers in the mid-1980s. Cases involving current and former residents were consolidated into a class-action lawsuit in 2008.
Swope dismissed objections to the settlement, calling it an “all or nothing” approval. Some class members had argued the settlement wasn’t fair and reasonable.
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A serious problem
In the past, settlements like this one have been overturned on the appeal. :-/
I know…and wouldn’t that just be the ultimate slap in the face to residents? Unbelievable what they (Monsanto) are continually allowed to get away with…all they need is to appeal in front of *the right* judge and no one in Nitro will ever see a penny. Ugh!
There is no other word for it than: EVIL.
I checked out the freaks that own Monsanto, and of course, it’s Zionist-Jews.
Evil is right . . . but you can leave out the “Zionist-Jews” part . . . that kind of rhetoric is pure evil unto itself.
@craig, defending Zionism, with its roots in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, sounds like Hasbara/propaganda.
Since ‘Israel’ calls itself a “Jewish state”, people have every right to criticize Zio-Nazis.
This is not about religion but” corporate greed” or simply greed!
Greed and corruption are indeed the root of the evil we keep seeing. Everything else is just divisive specifics; the only issue is we the peons against the corporate-gov’t forces trying to overrun us and control everything. I don’t care if it is green and purple martians behind it all…