A letter containing a check for $304,715.14 arrived in the mail Jan. 17 at the Fairfield Water Department, signifying closure to a decade-old national class action lawsuit against Syngenta, the largest manufacturer of the weed killer atrazine.
Before Fairfield switched to well water in 2000, the water department detected atrazine in its three reservoirs dating back as far as the late 1980s. While levels were well ...
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