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US jury orders Monsanto to pay $857m over chemicals in school
GreenWatch Desk
World News
2023-12-19, 10:24am
(BSS/AFP) - A US jury has ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay $857 million to people exposed to PCBs -- a chemical formerly used as a coolant -- at a school in Washington state.
The jury found the company -- now owned by German firm Bayer -- liable for the sale of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that were used in light fittings at Sky Valley Education Center, ordering it to pay $73 million compensation and $784 million in punitive damages to seven plaintiffs.