About 240 million years ago, southeastern Idaho was covered by a warm sea where dead fish and plankton piled up, creating a prehistoric muck that hardened to phosphate- and selenium-rich rock.

Monsanto had turned these deposits into a blockbuster business line by selling phosphate-laced detergents, which by the 1960s had come under attack for polluting waterways, because phosphorus ...

Anxieties over a global industrial slowdown have to contend with the increasingly aggressive buying in agricultural chemical stocks like Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) and Monsanto (NYSE ...

Monsanto Co. has agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for not reporting hundreds of uncontrolled releases of toxic chemicals at its eastern Idaho phosphate plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...

A small group of protesters hurled huge piles of cash around the lobby of ... as part of a protest against agriculture conglomerate Monsanto. At least three activists showed up at the building ...

The findings came in a lawsuit the city filed against Monsanto and three of its corporate successors. PCBs were banned in 1979 but continue to be released into the waterways through stormwater.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal land managers are giving Monsanto Co. permission to develop a new mining project in the phosphate patch the mountains of southeast Idaho. The Bureau of Land ...

Federal officials have approved Monsanto's plans to expand mining operations in southeast Idaho's phosphate patch after concluding that a $30 million liner and drainage system would adequately ...