Bayer And Monsanto Should Pay Cleanup Costs For Toxic PCB
Chemicals, Says German Environmental Group
By Christopher Zara
on March 12 2014 4:45 PM
http://www.ibtimes.com/bayer-monsanto-should-pay-cleanup-costs-toxic-pcb-chemicals-says-german-environmental-group-1561073
The logo of Germany’s largest drug-maker Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals is
pictured on the front of its building in Berlin
April 28, 2011. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch
A number of German
environmentalists think it’s high time chemical companies were held accountable
for a now-banned pollutant that they were manufacturing for nearly half a
century. And they’re speaking out against one of those companies at a place
where its top executives are certain to hear it: an annual stockholders’
meeting.
The Coordination Gegen
Bayer-Gefahren (Coalition Against Bayer Dangers) said Wednesday that Bayer AG (FWB:BAYN) should take
responsibility for the “immense costs of cleanup and treatment” from
polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a widely used family of chemicals first
manufactured in the 1920s. PCBs have been banned in part of Europe and the United States
since the 1970s, but they do not readily break down and can remain in the
environment for decades. According to the EPA, the poisonous agents are known
to cause cancer, and a multitude of harms to the immune, reproductive, nervous
and endocrine systems.
The anti-Bayer coalition calls
PCBs “among the most toxic substances ever produced by chlorine chemistry.” The
group says Bayer AG, the German
chemical and pharmaceutical giant, was the world’s second largest producer of
the agents, accounting for some 160,000 metric tons of PCBs, or 12 percent of
the world’s total production. Bayer sold PCBs under the trade name Clophen.
Monsanto
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for the Monsanto
Company, and is the lobby firm for Bayer
HealthCare.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior counsel for
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Monsanto Company, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a director at Bayer AG, a director at the American
Council on Germany, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then became
part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II,
the IG Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor
camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG
Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical
used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After
World War II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an
individual business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven
years in prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, was made head of the supervisory
board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Bayer
Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Gregory S. Babe
is the president & CEO for the Bayer Corporation, and was a director
at the American Council on Germany.
Mayer
Brown was the lobby firm for the Bayer
Corporation.
Robert
A. Helman is a partner at Mayer
Brown, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William
M. Daley was a partner at Mayer
Brown, the chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M. Daley
Professional career
Daley returned to the practice of law, as a partner with the
firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt) from 1993 to 1997.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for the Monsanto
Company, and is the lobby firm for Bayer
HealthCare.
Bayer
Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG.
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