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 San ...

A statewide ban on the gasoline additive MTBE takes full effect on Thursday, ridding California of one set of pollution issues while introducing another. State officials are grudgingly accepting ...

Santa Monica city officials had no idea they would trigger an international legal brawl when they sent their water out for routine testing in 1996 and discovered it contained the foul-smelling ...

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, leading ...

NEW YORK -- In an attempt to settle litigation over decades of groundwater contamination from the gasoline additive MTBE, nearly twelve oil companies have agreed to pay $423 million to assist clean-up ...

Gov. Gray Davis announced Friday a one-year delay on banning the pollutant MTBE from the state’s gasoline supplies, explaining that he wants to avoid price hikes and shortages as the state moves to ...

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 ...

ConocoPhillips, Shell, Marathon, Chevron and BP are among about a dozen oil companies that will pay $423 million to settle lawsuits brought by water suppliers in 17 states over contamination from the ...

A statewide regulation supposed to force all gas stations serving MTBE-laden fuel to label their pumps as such may not do much good, some believe. “The problem is there’s really no one enforcing it,” ...

Major oil companies' have agreed to pay 153 public water systems to cleanse wells of a potentially carcinogenic gasoline additive, a deal that could grow if more tainted wells are discovered over the ...

Lake Tahoe’s south shore isn’t the only place in the region facing problems with the controversial fuel additive MTBE. A new kind of cleanup system has been installed at Kirkwood to stop the spread of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Phillips Petroleum Co., ChevronTexaco Corp. and Royal Dutch/Shell Group units must pay to clean contaminated public wells near Lake Tahoe after failing to disclose the dangers of a ...