Posted June 25, 2015
In July 2014, the large biotech company Monsanto was ordered by the West Virginia State Supreme Court to pay Nitro, a town in West Virginia, $93 million to clean up the toxic contamination they left behind (1)(2). Monsanto ran an herbicide factory in Nitro for 56 years, closing in 2004 (1), and produced chemicals including Agent Orange, the infamous herbicide used during the Vietnam War, the by-products of which can cause serious health problems. Read more.