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Following General Electric Company’s (GE) roll out of two key proposals in its Housatonic Rest of River remediation proposal—Quality of Life Compliance Plan and Updated Project Operations Plan—the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) replied July 22 with its conditional approval that included a push for more specificity in mitigation measures, qualitative standards, public-road provisions, sampling work, … Read more

The townspeople of Lee, with the help of attorney Cristobal Bonifaz, have prepared a ground-breaking lawsuit alleging a civil and criminal conspiracy by General Electric (GE) and Monsanto to harm humans and the environment. Lately, I have been focusing on conspiracies. Let’s do this geographically and start in Florida with the classified-documents case that Judge … Read more

It seems clear to me that GE does not want a trial anywhere near the town that has been injured or the river that has been destroyed. For weeks now, I have been writing about the seismic battle between Monsanto and GE over reimbursing Monsanto for the billions they have paid in damage awards for … Read more

LEE — The town has refiled its lawsuit against Monsanto, General Electric and others regarding the manufacture and use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which it called a “criminal corporate action.” The civil lawsuit, filed March 13 in Berkshire Superior Court, alleges the companies knew PCBs impacted human health and the environment, constituting “intentional infliction of harm to … Read more

The town of Lee, Massachusetts, is suing General Electric, Monsanto and other firms for damages stemming from pollution of the Housatonic River. Monsanto manufactured PCBs that GE used in its plant upriver from Lee, in Pittsfield. The town claims the companies intentionally harmed the environment and area residents. The lawsuit, filed in Berkshire Superior Court … Read more

After dropping its lawsuit against Monsanto Corporation (Monsanto) and its iterations last year, Select Board Chair Robert “Bob” Jones said the town is “back in the saddle” with its March 13 refiling of a civil action naming Monsanto (the original company’s agricultural spin-off) as well as Solutia (its chemical products spin-off) and Pharmacia (its pharmaceutical spin-off) as … Read more

Updated on Friday, Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m. with documents  Lee — Documents in the possession of the Lee Select Board show an alleged agreement between General Electric Company and Monsanto Company whereby Monsanto wouldn’t be held liable from any fallout to the health and safety of humans, animals, and environment from the sale of its … Read more