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Live MTBE-Free or Die
New Hampshire Sues 22 Oil Companies Over MTBE Pollution |
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07 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Live MTBE-Free or Die New Hampshire Sues 22 Oil Companies Over MTBE Pollution In a first-of-its-kind move by a state, New Hampshire filed suit against 22 oil companies yesterday, blaming them for contaminating drinking water with the fuel additive MTBE. The companies added the chemical to their gasoline to make it burn more cleanly, but it has leached into more than ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Hampshire, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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In the Drink
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12 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| In the Drink In other news from the Golden State, regulators in California are reviving a campaign to clean up perchlorate, a Cold War-era pollutant that has been showing up in drinking water supplies across the country. Since the 1950s, the substance has been used as an oxidizer in rockets, munitions, and fireworks. It was not considered ... |
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| Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Shelling Out
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06 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shelling Out The first lawsuit in the U.S. over contamination stemming from the gasoline additive MTBE was settled in California yesterday, when Shell Oil agreed to pay the South Tahoe Public Utility District $28 million to help fund the cleanup of tainted drinking water wells. The district filed the lawsuit in 1998, after MTBE contamination forced the closure of one-third of South Lake Tahoe' ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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When Methanol's Said and Done
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06 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| When Methanol's Said and Done In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California's ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. The state began phasing out the chemical compound because of its apparent threat to water quality and human health, b ... |
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| Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Golly G.E.
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01 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Golly G.E. Environmental groups and officials in New York state are concerned that General Electric may be making headway in its campaign to scuttle a federal plan forcing it to dredge the Hudson River for pollution. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced in August that she would proceed with a $500 million, Clinton-era plan to order G.E. to remove ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Hudson River, New York, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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