PORT HUENEME — The Navy began a chemical cleanup Friday that it hopes will eventually lead to a blueprint for other communities across the nation to follow when removing the contaminant MTBE ...

“Currently, preliminary investigations suggest that the tragedy, which claimed 17 lives and injured several others, was caused by the leakage of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) solvent from a ...

So much of Great Falls is on well water that the MTBE chemical released into the bedrock posed a threat to parts of this community. The civic group that led the effort locally is just now ...

“A solvent – MTBE (Methy Tertiary Butyl Ether) – had leaked and the workers tried to plug the leak. Gas formed and spread from the third floor to the lower floors of the building. Before the ...

The distilled solvent which leaked was identified as Methylene Tertiary Butyl Ether or MTBE, a flammable liquid used as an additive in unleaded gasoline to achieve more efficient burning ...

Hyderabad: The massive explosion at the Escientia Advanced Sciences factory located in Atchutapuram special economic zone in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district that killed 17 people on ...

The report by the factories department suggest that the mixture of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) prepared in the reactors was being transferred to a storage tank when the mixture leaked.

The blast at the at a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturing unit of Escientia Advanced Sciences at Atchutapuram in Anakapalli district occurred when workers at the factory on August 21, 2024 ...