The municipalities allege that Monsanto intentionally misled the public for decades about the environmental and health hazards of PCBs, resulting in widespread contamination. The lawsuit seeks to shift the significant costs associated with eliminating PCBs from the affected cities and villages to the defendants. It is unclear yet the exact costs.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.