State Seeks Reconsideration Of Ruling, Says Schools’ PCB Case Should Be Stayed

( September 25, 2024, 1:29 PM EDT) -- BURLINGTON, Vt. — The state of Vermont has moved in a Vermont federal court for reconsideration of its opinion that denied the state’s motion to stay a lawsuit brought by 95 school districts against Monsanto Co. related to contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arguing that without a stay there will be two cases “racing one another to resolve the same issues—and to judgment—for the same contamination” in something that is a matter of “urgent statewide public policy.”...