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Owner of a small Oklahoma cattle ranch, Joe Harrison’s lawsuit is one of nearly 6,500 so far filed against both Syngenta and Chevron, which distributed paraquat until the mid-1980s, in East St. Louis. Another 1,600 cases have been brought in Pennsylvania state court, along with nearly 500 in California, while dozens more have been filed in state courts across the U.S. But unlike the lawsuits against Bayer’s herbicide Roundup, they have yet to lead to a bellwether trial — perhaps one reason that controversy around paraquat has yet to bubble into mainstream consciousness.
