THE MTBE gasoline-additive problem has earned its reputation as an overly complex stew of special interest politics, economics and environmental concerns. At the local level, it seems simple. The ...

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.

Recent actions taken by the US Environmental Protection Agency-as well as those taken by certain state governments-have thrust the debate over the use of methyl tertiary butyl ...

MTBE: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether--a gasoline additive--that scientists say may be polluting one third of the nation's drinking water wells. The additive blended into gasoline in the early 90's to ...

Hundreds of lawsuits alleged that oil companies had fouled groundwater with the gasoline additive.

Finally, in our view, MTBE is a product that should never have been placed into commerce, and it should be removed from gasoline immediately.

Handling pyrophoric reagents can be dangerous. When chemists want to transfer a small amount of a pyrophoric reagent, such as tert-butyl lithium, they typically use a needle and syringe.

MTBE is manufactured primarily for use as a gasoline additive because of its ability to increase fuel efficiency while decreasing pollutants in the atmosphere. Oil companies began adding it to ...

Major oil companies' multimillion-dollar payment to 153 public water systems to cleanse wells of a potentially carcinogenic gasoline additive could grow if more tainted wells are discovered over ...

How much money? - MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, is a petroleum-based oxygenate that has been used in gasoline since the 1970s to increase octane and reduce smog-causing emissions.

BP said it would phase out cleaner-burning fuel additive MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, in California gasoline by Dec. 31, and has begun to sign contracts with several suppliers of the ...

PORTSMOUTH — Several residents in the Port City area are looking to form an environmental group to raise awareness of the issue of MtBE. Elayna Bosen, one of the organizers of the effort, said ...