⁍ New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald accuses the companies of having for decades sold the chemical compound while keeping secret its internal research that recognized the health dangers associated with its use, behavior that it says amounts to neglience and a public nuisance.

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– New Hampshire is suing Bayer, Monsanto, Eastman Chemical, and Pfizer, alleging that the companies knowingly contaminated the state’s public property and surface water with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, reports Westlaw Today. The state’s attorney general accuses the companies in Merrimack Superior Court of having for decades sold the chemical compound while keeping secret its internal research that recognized the health dangers associated with its use, behavior that it says amounts to neglience and a public nuisance.