Portland has recently teamed up with six other cities on the West Coast to separately sue Monsanto for damages to both the health of it’s citizens and environmental damages brought on by products that contain polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
“The City Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to authorize the city to sue Monsanto, the exclusive manufacturer of PCBs in the United States from 1935 until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned their manufacture in 1979.”
The PCB’s that are in question were rapidly used in many industrial area’s and have been shown to be a likely cause of cancer in both humans and animals.
“Though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release its proposed cleanup plan for the Superfund site as soon as the first week in April, that was not the reason the city decided to sue Monsanto right now, said Tracy Reeve, city attorney.”
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