Water pollution costs Exxon Mobil $105 million
October 26, 2009

Exxon Mobil has been ordered to pay just under $105 million in a product-liability court case in New York City, in which the city alleged that the oil company contaminated six water wells that help to serve the city. The alleged contamination came from MTBE, a gasoline additive used to enhance octane and reduce air pollution. But MTBE is also suspected of being a potential carcinogen when ingested at high doses through water. The EPA started pushing for a replacement of MTBE with ethanol and "renewable" fuel additives late in the Clinton Administration, and we've never seen much use of MTBE in the upper Midwest thanks to the prevalence of the corn ethanol industry here.

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