Yes sir but this company is shut down now through court prosecutions where
they admitted many charges. This company is the subsidiary of American
BAYER.mKR IRS 22 723 (below news 2021)
*LOS ANGELES* – In court documents filed today in Hawaii, Monsanto Company
agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a
pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii, and the company further agreed to plead
guilty to two other charges related to the storage of a banned pesticide
that were the subject of a 2019 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).
Monsanto admitted in a plea agreement filed today that it
committed 30 misdemeanor crimes related to the use of a glufosinate
ammonium-based product sold under the brand name Forfeit 280. After using
the product in 2020 on corn fields on Oahu, Monsanto allowed workers to
enter the fields during a six-day “restricted-entry interval” (REI) after
the product was applied.
The plea agreement calls for Monsanto to serve three years of
probation, pay a total of $12 million and continue for another three years
a comprehensive environmental compliance program that includes third-party
auditor.
As a result of the conduct in which Monsanto allowed workers on
30 occasions to enter fields sprayed with Forfeit 280 during the REI, the
company violated a 2019 DPA related to the storage of a banned pesticide
<https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/monsanto-agrees-plead-guilty-illegally-spraying-banned-pesticide-maui-facility>.
According to the documents filed today, Monsanto will plead guilty to two
felony charges filed in 2019 that the government would have dismissed if
the company had complied with federal law. In conjunction with the DPA
related to the two felony charges of illegally storing an acute hazardous
waste, Monsanto pleaded guilty in early 2020 to a misdemeanor offense of
unlawfully spraying a banned pesticide – specifically methyl parathion, the
active ingredient in Penncap-M – on research crops at one of its facilities
on Maui.
“Monsanto is a serial violator of federal environmental laws,”
said United States Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison. “The company repeatedly
violated laws related to highly regulated chemicals, exposing people to
pesticides that can cause serious health problems.”
“The defendant in this case failed to follow regulations
governing the storage of hazardous wastes and the application of
pesticides, putting people and the environment at risk,” said Scot Adair,
Special Agent in Charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal
enforcement program in Hawaii. “Today’s plea agreement shows that EPA will
hold responsible those who violate laws designed to protect communities
from exposure to hazardous chemicals.”
In the new case filed today, Monsanto admitted that “due to a
lack of oversight and supervision by Monsanto,” its workers violated a
change to the REI period after the spraying of Forfeit 280 “by entering the
fields 30 times to perform field-corn scouting within six days of
spraying.” (“Corn scouting” consists of checking the corn for things such
as weeds, insects and disease.) The REI change for Forfeit 280 – which was
extended from 12 hours to six days – was part of an industry-wide change
for products containing glufosinate ammonium prompted by an EPA decision in
late 2016.
Monsanto admitted that it violated the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which regulates the registration,
sale, distribution and use of pesticides, by failing to comply with Forfeit
280’s labeling. The label for Forfeit 280 stated: “It is a violation of
Federal law to use Forfeit 280 in a manner inconsistent with its label.”
Monsanto illegally used Forfeit 280 on Oahu facilities known as Lower Kunia
and Haleiwa.
In the 2019 case related to Penncap-M, Monsanto pleaded guilty to
a misdemeanor offense of unlawfully spraying the banned pesticide on corn
seed and research crops at its Valley Farm facility on Maui in 2014.
Monsanto admitted using Penncap-M in violation of FIFRA, even though the
company knew its use was prohibited after 2013 pursuant to a “cancellation
order” issued by the EPA. The company further admitted that, after the 2014
spraying, it told employees to re-enter the sprayed fields seven days later
– even though Monsanto knew that workers should have been prohibited from
entering the area for 31 days.
The felony offenses covered by the DPA – the two charges to which
Monsanto will plead guilty – are the unlawful storage of an acute hazardous
waste in violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Penncap-M was a “restricted use pesticide” that could not be purchased or
used by the public, and it could only be used by a certified applicator
because of the possible adverse effects to the environment and injury to
applicators or bystanders that could result.
From March 2013 through August 2014, even though the pesticide
was on the company’s lists of chemicals that needed disposal, Monsanto
stored 160 pounds of Penncap-M hazardous waste at a facility on Molokai,
which made Monsanto a “Large Quantity Generator” of hazardous waste under
RCRA. “Monsanto knew that Penncap-M had the substantial potential to be
harmful to others and to the environment,” it admitted in the documents
filed today.
In addition to spraying the banned pesticide at one of its three
facilities on Maui, Monsanto also stored a total of 111 gallons of
Penncap-M at Valley Farm and two other sites known as Maalaea and Piilani.
Just like on Molokai, the storage of Penncap-M at the three Maui sites made
Monsanto a “Large Quantity Generator” of acute hazardous waste at the three
locations, according to court documents.
Furthermore, when it transported Penncap-M to its Valley Farm
site in 2014, the company violated federal law when it failed to use a
proper shipping manifest to identify the hazardous material and when it
failed to obtain a permit to accept hazardous waste at that site.
In relation to the DPA and the prior guilty plea, Monsanto paid
$10.2 million – a $6 million criminal fine under the DPA, a $200,000 fine
for the FIFRA offense, and $4 million in community service payments to
Hawaiian government entities.
In the plea agreement filed today, Monsanto agreed to pay another
$6 million criminal fine, as well as an addition $6 million in community
service payments. Four Hawaiian agencies will receive $1.5 million payments:
- The Department of Agriculture, Pesticide Use Revolving Fund –
Pesticide Disposal Program/Pesticide Safety Training;
- the Department of the Attorney General, Criminal
Justice/Investigations Division;
- the Department of Health, Environmental Management Division, to
support environmental-health programs; and
- the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic
Resources.
As a result of the two actions taken by the Justice Department,
Monsanto has agreed to pay a total of $22.2 million for the two RCRA
felonies and the 31 FIFRA misdemeanor offenses.
Monsanto has agreed to have representatives appear in United
States District Court in the near future to enter guilty pleas to a total
of 32 offenses.
The sentence detailed in the court documents today are subject to
the approval of United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright.
This case is the result of an investigation by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Criminal Investigation Division.
This matter is being prosecuted by Assistant United States
Attorneys Erik M. Silber and Dennis Mitchell of the Environmental and
Community Safety Crimes Section and Mark A. Williams, Chief of the
Environmental and Community Safety Crimes Section. In this case, these
prosecutors are acting as special attorneys appointed by the Attorney
General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 515. The United States Attorney’s Office
for the District of Hawaii was recused from this investigation.
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