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Exxon Fails to Slip by Guilty Verdict
2013-04-11 11:42:57| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In order to reduce smog from gasoline-power vehicles, Exxon Mobil introduced the additive MTBE to its gasoline in the 1970s and 1980s, but that chemical was eventually found to have polluted the groundwater in New Hampshire.
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Cove Where Exxon Oil Has Been Found Is Part of Lake Conway
2013-04-10 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine-tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas. Some oil had spilled into a "cove adjacent to" the lake, the company said, but "Lake Conway remains oil free," according to news releases Exxon issued as recently as April 5 [3]. That position has sparked a debate over where Lake Conwayone of Arkansas' premier fishing spotsbegins...
NH jury: Exxon Mobil owes $236M over gas chemical
2013-04-10 09:13:58| Chemicals - Topix.net
30, 2009 file photo, an Exxon tanker truck makes a refueling stop at an Exxon station in Arlington, Va.
Exxon Mobil must pay $236 million in U.S. pollution case
2013-04-09 22:25:02| Energy - Topix.net
A jury found Exxon Mobil liable Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit over groundwater contamination by the gasoline additive MTBE, and ordered the oil giant to pay $236 million to New Hampshire to clean it up.
Jury finds Exxon Mobil liable for $236.4 million in pollution suit
2013-04-09 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found Exxon Mobil Corp liable for $236.4 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the oil company had polluted groundwater in the state with a gasoline additive used to reduce smog in the 1970s and 1980s. Following a three-month trial, jurors deliberated less than two hours before finding that the world's largest publicly traded oil company acted negligently in contaminating the groundwater with the additive MTBE, said Jessica Grant, a lawyer who represented the...
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