An article in the Los Angeles Times gets my blood angered up – while reminding me of the wisdom of patience and the importance of playing well with others. Water Districts all over California are about to see the fruits of law labors on their behalf to clean up MTBE contamination. Sound familiar? Sort of. Read on:
MTBE contamination settlement could cost oil companies $423 million
By Janet Wilson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 8, 2008
Chevron, BP and other major oil companies have agreed to pay $423 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits brought by water suppliers and users in California and 19 other states over groundwater contaminated with the gasoline additive MTBE.
In California, 11 plaintiffs would receive more than $78 million plus possible reimbursement for future treatment of nearly 1,100 wells, attorneys said.
The suits alleged that the oil companies were responsible for contamination in underground aquifers in the city of Riverside, portions of San Diego and Sacramento counties and elsewhere across the nation by adding methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, to gasoline as a way to reduce air pollution.
The proposed settlement was filed Wednesday with U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York, who will review it.
The six oil companies that didn’t agree to settle…..Read the rest of this article here at the LA Times website.
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