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In this June 28, 2011, file photo, bottles of Roundup herbicide, a product of Monsanto, are displayed on a store shelf in St. Louis. German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG announced Monday, May 23, 2016, that it has made a $62 billion offer to buy U.S.-based crops and seeds specialist Monsanto. A Northern California judge has upheld a jury's verdict finding Monsanto's weed killer caused a groundskeeper's cancer, but slashed his $287 million award to $78 million. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos ruled Monday, Oct. 22.
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Monsanto's lawyers said they will fight every lawsuit in the country alleging that the active ingredient in the world's most popular herbicide causes cancer.
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A judge gave plaintiff DeWayne Johnson until Dec. 7 to accept the reduced amount or demand a new trial.
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The jury awarded punitive damages after it found that the St. Louis-based agribusiness had purposely ignored evidence that its Roundup product causes cancer.
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In this June 30, 2008 file photo a StarKist brand product is seen on a grocery store shelf in Boston. Authorities say StarKist has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing as part of a broad collusion investigation of the industry. Federal prosecutors announced the plea agreement Thursday and said the company faces a maximum fine of $100 million. Bumble Bee Foods last year pleaded guilty to the same charge and paid a $25 million fine.
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StarKist Faces $100M Fine
Prosecutors allege that the industry's top three companies conspired between 2010 and 2013 to keep prices artificially high.
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In this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, a Bay Area Rapid Transit train leaves the station in Oakland, Calif. Regulators fined a Northern California transit agency $650,000 for safety failures that led to a train fatally striking two workers inspecting track five years ago during a union strike.
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Train Agency Fined for Worker Deaths
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Police tape blocks off Fremont Street outside the closed Salesforce Transit Center Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in San Francisco. A second beam in San Francisco's celebrated new $2 billion transit terminal shows signs of cracking, an official said Wednesday, a day after a crack in a nearby support beam shut down the building that opened just last month. The first crack found by workers installing roof tiles Tuesday spans a beam holding up a park over the three-block-long facility and runs over a downtown street, Salesforce Transit Center executive director Mark Zabaneh said.
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Engineers Search for Cause in Cracked Beam
It shut down a brand new $2 billion transit center in San Francisco.
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In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, work continues on the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. Officials say the cost of dealing with last year's near-disaster at the nation's tallest dam in California have climbed to more than $1 billion. The state Department of Water Resources said Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, construction costs and related expenses are driving the increase at Oroville Dam.
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CA Dam Repairs Hit $1.1 Billion
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In this July 9, 2018, file photo, Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson, right, reacts while attorney Brent Wisner, not seen, speaks about his condition during the Monsanto trial in San Francisco. Monsanto is being accused of hiding the dangers of its popular Roundup products. A San Francisco jury on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. The lawsuit brought by Johnson was the first to go to trial among hundreds filed in state and federal courts saying Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which Monsanto denies.
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In this photo taken Oct. 15, 2017, Marcos Morales, co-founder of pot company Legion of Bloom, stands on the ruins of a state-of-the-art drying shed in Glen Ellen, Calif., where 1,600 pounds of ready-to-ship bud were destroyed in a fire.
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He said he was working too much overtime and asked the company to relieve him of working extra hours going forward.
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