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<\/a>\r\nAccording to CDC\r\n\r\nToxicological Profile for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)<\/a>, November 2000,\r\n\r\n“Approximately 99% of the PCBs used by U.S. industry were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company in Sauget, Illinois, until production was stopped in August 1977.”<\/a>\r\n\r\nBy Michael Grunwald in Washington Post Tuesday, January 1, 2002; Page A01,\r\n\r\nMonsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution:\r\nPCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told<\/a>\r\n(\r\noriginal URL<\/a> no longer works),\r\n \r\nANNISTON, Ala. — On the west side of Anniston, the poor side\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/a>\r\nof Anniston, the people ate dirt. They called it “Alabama clay” and\r\ncooked it for extra flavor. They also grew berries in their gardens,\r\nraised hogs in their back yards, caught bass in the murky streams\r\nwhere their children swam and played and were baptized. They didn’t\r\nknow their dirt and yards and bass and kids — along with the\r\nacrid air they breathed — were all contaminated with\r\nchemicals. They didn’t know they lived in one of the most polluted\r\npatches of America.\r\n<\/p>\r\n![](\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cen\/images\/8031\/8031NOTW3.trailer.JPG\")
<\/a>\r\nNow they know. They also know that for nearly 40 years, while\r\nproducing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a\r\nlocal factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a\r\nwest Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into\r\noozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto\r\ndocuments — many emblazoned with warnings such as\r\n“CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy” — show that for decades, the\r\ncorporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
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<\/a>\r\nIn 1966, Monsanto managers discovered that fish submerged in that\r\ncreek turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding\r\nskin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. In 1969,\r\nthey found fish in another creek with 7,500 times the legal PCB\r\nlevels. They decided “there is little object in going to expensive\r\nextremes in limiting discharges.” In 1975, a company study found\r\nthat PCBs caused tumors in rats. They ordered its conclusion changed\r\nfrom “slightly tumorigenic” to “does not appear to be carcinogenic.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n![](\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/pipeline\/2013-07-25--sabal-trail\/SCAN0450.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\nIs this what the natural gas industry thinks of Georgians?\r\n