In the late 1960s, the Monsanto plant in Sauget, IL. was the nations largest producer of PCBs, which remain in the water along Dead Creek in Sauget. An EPA official referred to Sauget as one of the most polluted communities in the region and a soup of different chemicals[99] Agent Orange was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called Rainbow Herbicides.[100] In 2002, the Washington Post carried a front-page report on Monsantos legacy of environmental damage in Anniston, Alabama, related to its legal production of PCBs. Plaintiffs in a lawsuit pending at that time provided documentation showing that the local Monsanto factory knowingly discharged both mercury and PCB-laden waste into local creeks for over 40 years.[101] In another story published in 2002, the New York Times reported that during 1969 alone Monsanto had dumped 45 tons of PCBs into Snow Creek, a feeder for Choccolocco Creek which supplies much of the areas drinking water, and that the company buried millions of pounds of PCB in open-pit landfills located on hillsides above the plant and surrounding neighborhoods.[102] In August 2003, Solutia and Monsanto agreed to pay plaintiffs $700 million to settle claims by over 20,000 Anniston residents related to PCB contamination.[103] As of November 2013, Monsanto was associated with 9 active Superfund sites and 32 archived sites in the US, in the EPAs Superfund database.[104] Monsanto has been sued, and has settled, multiple times for damaging the health of its employees or residents near its Superfund sites through pollution and poisoning.[105][106] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
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