Children's Health Defense By
On Tuesday, a Massachusetts mother filed a lawsuit blaming widespread polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) pollution by General Electric (GE), Monsanto and its German owner Bayer AG and several other companies for causing her 9-year-old son to develop leukaemia and suffer repeated debilitating medical treatment.
Crystal Czerno alleges, among other things, that GE knowingly contaminated her son Carter’s elementary school and playground with PCB waste while downplaying the harm it could cause.
The school is located in the town of Pittsfield, just north of a GE facility that has made electrical transformers containing PCBs for more than 40 years. PCB-laden soil from the GE site was spread over the school grounds.
The lawsuit accuses the companies of using the community as a “dumping ground” for “toxic and cancerous” chemicals…
