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 ...

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 ...

If the waiver is obtained, gasoline with alkylates would be the likely replacement fuel. In the short term, an MTBE ban likely means a wholesale shift to ethanol in our cleaner-burning gasoline.

MTBE producers, however, criticized BP’s move as financially motivated and noted studies commissioned by the California Energy Commission that pointed to a 5% to 10% shortfall in the state’s ...

While MTBE has been in use for quite some time, it was not until the mid-1990s that it began to be used year-round in 11 percent to 12 percent by volume concentrations. It does take a period of ...

MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) was supposed to help clear air pollution by making gasoline burn cleaner. But as the I-Team showed you in the mid-90s, it ate away rubber fuel lines in cars ...

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 ...

MTBE moves quickly through soil and into groundwater from leaks in gasoline storage tanks, according to a statement from Suffolk County, N.Y., which will receive $73.4 million as part of the ...

But attorney Rick Wallace of Washington, D.C., who is a liaison with the court for the 12 companies, said Sher’s statements were not true. “MTBE is not a contaminant . . . and this settlement ...

And MTBE would be added to the list of contaminants that water is routinely tested for under state law. "They heard us!" Atkins proclaimed. The state wants comment on the proposal from the public.

MTBE Threatens Wells . 8/29/2001. 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.