Michael Grunwald - ... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants

... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.

- Michael Grunwald

topic: Years, Toxic Waste, Environmental, Confidential, Monsanto, Landfills