Monsanto Fails to Escape Suit Over PCBs in Vermont High School

Monsanto Co. must go to trial over its alleged liability in exposing four teachers to harmful levels of polychlorinated biphenyls through building materials used in Burlington High School.

The former teachers presented sufficient evidence “of a probable link between PCBs and their injuries"—which include cognitive and autoimmune disorders—to preclude summary judgment in favor of Monsanto, Judge William K. Sessions III of the US District Court for the District of Vermont said in a Tuesday order.

The plaintiffs worked at the high school for years before it was shuttered in 2020 after environmental testing showed PCB levels exceeding federal and ...