Source: https://www.jsonline.com/, February 4, 2025
By: Tamia Fowlkes

Since the early 2000s, the city and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District have spent millions of dollars cleaning up carcinogenic chemicals from its sewers and waterways.

That’s according to an ongoing lawsuit filed by the sewerage district and the City of Milwaukee against Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer now owned by the German company Bayer. The lawsuit alleges that Monsanto promoted and sold polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, throughout the 1950s to 1970s while concealing the health risks posed by the chemicals. Read more.