Suit Seeks Damages to Help Fund Clean-up Efforts
BALTIMORE, MD – Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced today the filing of a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil and more than 50 other petroleum related companies to recover damages and address the widespread contamination of Maryland’s waters with methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE).
MTBE is a chemical compound that was used as a fuel additive in gasoline since the late 1970s. MTBE was discharged into the environment from leaking underground storage tanks at service stations and other locations, causing serious groundwater contamination in the State. Although gasoline refiners have since phased MTBE out of Maryland’s gasoline supplies and replaced it with ethanol, contaminated groundwater remains.
“Our water is a vital public resource and a source of drinking water for a large number of Maryland residents,” said Attorney General Frosh. “These companies knew that the use and sale of MTBE gasoline in Maryland would contaminate the State’s drinking water and render a lot of it virtually undrinkable. Together with the Maryland Departments of Health and the Environment, we are bringing this suit to ensure that the State’s water resources are restored.”
Read more in the full press release: http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2017/121317.pdf
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3 comments:
Frosh must think MD taxpayers are made out of money. I'm sure he has already spent that extra $1M suing GM and settling for $120 to be divided by 48 states!
Frosh just needs to go away. He is embarrassing the state
Frosh and the mga new these tanks would and were leaking and allowed them to remain in the ground until they couldnt hide the fact. Frosh is responsible for the contamination. Dont you think its odd that ALL the sewage treatment plants spilling into tributaries of the Chesapeake but Frosh dosent bat an eye about "responsibility" there! Frosh needs to be indited. Where do we stand on the corrupt gerrymandering case Err frosh?
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