by Jack Montgomery, The National Pulse:

Agrochemical giant Monsanto, owned by German biotechnology and pharmaceutical corporation Bayer AG since 2018, has been ordered to pay $857 million to students and parent volunteers who were sickened by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington, just north east of Seattle.

Jurors awarded seven plaintiffs $73 million in compensation and $784 million in punitive damages, after being convinced Monsanto had covered up the harmful effects of PCBs for years.