Chevron Corp. and other big oil companies have agreed to pay $422 million to settle a major lawsuit over the gasoline additive MTBE, and much of the money will go to plaintiffs in California.

Federal regulators have said that MTBE is a possible carcinogen at high doses, and California law limits exposure to 13 parts per billion in water. It can render water undrinkable because of its ...

Ron Cross of Jenness Road ... "I don't think people are very educated about it." MtBE is not a known human carcinogen, but based on tests performed on rats, it is a suspected carcinogen.

HAILED AS a smog-fighter, substantial volumes of the gasoline additive MTBE were included in California's gasoline a decade ago. Now, MTBE is -- literally and figuratively -- a four-letter word in ...

New research released Wednesday finds drinking water contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE may be far more widespread than previously thought–perhaps polluting one-third of the nation's ...

The current efforts in the US to ban the use of the gasoline oxygenate methyl tertiary butyl ether underscores how overzealous and wrong-headed enforcement of US environmental regulations ...

A jury found ExxonMobil liable in a lawsuit over groundwater contamination The contamination involved the gasoline additive MTBE ExxonMobil was ordered to pay New Hampshire %24236 million to clean ...

It's been more than three years since Donna Salva started using a filtration system to keep her kids from drinking water contaminated with potentially cancer-causing MTBE. She didn't trust the ...

The gasoline additive MTBE has leaked into 48 wells in public water systems serving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the state, state records show. The San Francisco Chronicle analyzed ...

Thank you, Claire Fortier, for acknowledging the District’s tenacity and resolve in our ongoing battle to eliminate MTBE in the Tahoe Basin. We believe were it not for the determination of the ...

New York, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a recent report by Reports Insights, the methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) market is poised for strong expansion and is expected to reach ...