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.

The oxygenate tert-butyl alcohol occurred at 61 percent of the sites, and the other three oxygenates–all ethers similar in structure to MTBE–turned up 9 percent to 24 percent of the time.

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 ...

Formally known as methyl tertiary butyl ether, MTBE was banned by California because of its perceived threat to humans and the water supply. But what began as an environmental issue took a twist ...

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 ...

WESTVILLE, Ind. – A Purdue University chemist has developed an experimental method that could be used to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from polluted ground water. Reynaldo Barreto, an associate ...

Epping Auto Salvage tested positive for 860 parts per billion MtBE. According to Martin, out of 15 wells tested in that area, two tested above the state standard, one at 350 ppb and the other at ...

Gen. Bill Lockyer said. California is one of more than a dozen states that have banned MTBE, or methyl tertiary-butyl ether, from fuel supplies. The additive, made from methanol, helps engines ...