Monsanto, BP, Veolia Fund Toxic Waste Cleanup
July 16th, 2015
Monsanto, BP and Veolia will pay to clean up toxic waste — including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) — at a former quarry in South Wales, the Guardian reports.
The newspaper says the agreement ends a 50-year ordeal that began with a Monsanto plant dumping thousands of tons of chemical and industrial waste into the quarry in the 1960s and ’70s. BP also dumped waste at the site, and Veolia acquired the contractors that originally disposed Monsanto’s waste.
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