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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US jury on Monday ordered chemical company Monsanto to pay $857 million to seven people at a school in the western state of Washington who said they were sickened by chemicals leaking from light fittings. The ruling is the latest legal setback for Monsanto, which is already grappling with hefty legal bills after losing court cases over its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup. The jury said the company, owned by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, had sold the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found in the fittings that the group of students and parent volunteers at Sky Vall...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US jury on Monday ordered chemical company Monsanto to pay $857 million to seven people at a school in the western state of Washington who said they were sickened by chemicals leaking from light fittings. The ruling is the latest legal setback for Monsanto, which is already grappling with hefty legal bills after losing court cases over its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup. The jury said the company, owned by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, had sold the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found in the fittings that the group of students and parent volunteers at Sky Vall...
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Washington (AFP) - At least 45 percent of the United States' tap water is contaminated with toxic "forever" chemicals, according to a study by a government agency. Found in everyday products such as non-stick frying pans, polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can linger in the environment for a long time and have been linked to serious health conditions including cancer and birth defects. The chemicals can reach water supplies through industrial discharges and leaching from landfill sites. "This USGS study was the first to compare PFAS in tap water from both private and public supplies on a broad ...
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New York (AFP) - US industrial giant 3M announced Tuesday it will phase out production of so-called "forever chemical" PFAS in light of tightening regulation connected to harmful health effects from their use. 3M will exit polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufacturing by the end of 2025 and discontinue use across its product portfolio under the same timeframe, moves that are expected to result in pre-tax costs of $1.3 to $2.3 billion. Known for the lengthy amount of time required before they break down and widely employed in Teflon and other goods, PFAS are man-made chemicals produced since ...
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New York (AFP) - Outages from Hurricane Ida are exacerbating shortages of raw materials, prompting fresh warnings Wednesday from large US companies saying supply chain problems will hinder sales. Paint company Sherwin-Williams cited Hurricane Ida when cutting its third-quarter sales forecast after previously projecting a recovery from the supply woes amid the Covid-19 pandemic. "We continue to see strong demand," Chief Executive John Morikis said in the statement. "However, persistent and industry-wide raw material availability issues have not improved as anticipated, impacting our ability to ...
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San Francisco (AFP) - German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer lost another appeal against a verdict that found its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, the latest setback in its bid to end thousands of lawsuits over the product. An appeals court in San Francisco on Monday upheld the 2019 ruling in favor of a couple who claimed they got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Roundup for years. The court also upheld a judge's decision to reduce the jury's compensation award to Alva and Alberta Pilliod from $2 billion to $86.7 million. Bayer has been plagued by problems since it bought Monsanto, ...
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San Francisco (AFP) - A US judge on Wednesday rejected a deal to settle future Roundup cancer suits, saying it does more for weed-killer maker Bayer than for those who fall ill. US district judge Vince Chhabria had expressed concerns about a $1.25 billion agreement proposed nearly a year ago, forcing the German giant to take another look at the plan. Chhabria on Wednesday rejected the latest version of the agreement, stating in a written ruling that it could not be salvaged by "mere tweaks." "The settlement proposed by these attorneys would accomplish a lot for (Bayer-owned) Monsanto," Chhabri...
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Washington (AFP) - A US federal court in San Francisco on Friday denied an appeal by Monsanto in the cancer trial over its Roundup weedkiller and upheld an award of $25 million in damages. It was the latest setback for Monsanto's parent, German chemical giant Bayer, in its campaign to put an end more than 13,000 US lawsuits over the chemical. The three-judge panel affirmed the district court's judgment in favor of Edwin Hardeman, who blamed the chemical in Roundup for causing his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The ruling found the district court properly denied Monsanto's appeal "because evidence sho...
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Washington (AFP) - An unknown hacker broke into a Florida city's water supply and briefly pushed levels of a potentially dangerous additive up 100-fold, local law enforcement said Monday. The hack was noticed quickly and reversed immediately, so no one in the Tampa suburb of Oldsmar was ever in danger, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. But it underscored the broader threat of cyberattacks to US infrastructure, he added. A computer operator for the Oldsmar water treatment system noticed Friday afternoon someone remotely accessing the plant's controls, Gualtieri said. The operator watc...
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Gainesville (United States) (AFP) - A liquid nitrogen leak at a food-processing plant killed at least six people and injured another 11 near the southern US city of Atlanta Thursday, police said. There were "5 fatalities confirmed on the scene" of the leak, police from Gainesville, Georgia told reporters, with health authorities adding that 12 people were transported to a hospital, including one firefighter, all suffering from respiratory injuries. One of those "was deceased at the hospital," Zachary Brackett of Hall County Fire Services told reporters. Three others were in critical care, fi...
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