BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 20 – Solutia, Inc. and Monsanto Co. have agreed to pay more than $700 million to settle claims by more than 20,000 Anniston, Alabama residents concerning PCB contamination, the companies’ and plaintiffs’ lawyers said today. The agreement, which will end a long-runn…

Monsanto Co., and its former chemicals unit, Solutia, Inc., have agreed to pay $600 million in cash to settle claims brought by thousands of Anniston, Alabama residents over the dumping of toxic PCBs in the area until the 1970s, the companies said yesterday. The settlement concludes lengthy litigati…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug.21 (UPI) – A $600 million settlement ahs been reached in two 30-yearld cases involving contamination claims of 20,000 Alabama residents. The claims were filed long ago by residents of Anniston against three once-related companies: Solutia, Inc., Monsanto Co. and Pharmacia…

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) – Monsanto Co., Solutia, Inc. and Pfizer, Inc. will pay more than $700 million to settle Alabama lawsuits that allege Monsanto dumped toxic chemicals three decades ago. David Shelby, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the threatened bankruptcy helped spur the settlement, …

BIRMINGHAM – Solutia, Inc. and Monsanto, Co. have agreed to pay $700 million to settle claims by more than 20,000 Anniston residents over PCB contamination, plaintiff’s attorneys said Wednesday. The agreement, which will end a long-running trial in state court over decades –old pol…

Solutia, Inc. has sued 19 companies alleging that they should help to pay for the environmental cleanup in Anniston, Alabama.

Solutia, Inc. has sued 19 companies alleging that they should help to pay for the environmental cleanup in Anniston, Alabama.

Pfizer, Inc. acquired a handful of top-selling drugs when it bought rival Pharmacia Corp. for $57 billion last month and became nation’s largest pharmaceutical company.

Alabama's growing number of rock quarries has sparked the public interest in these excavation sites. Our state, with its large deposits of limestone and granite, is one of the nation's leading producers of sand, rock and gravel. It is third in the country for limestone, and is among the top five mas…

The national news media is finally zeroing in on the tremendous problems caused by Monsanto Company for literally many thousands of Alabama citizens. For nearly 40 years, whole producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs in Anniston, Alabama, Monsanto routinely discharged toxic waste …