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 ...

Back in 1990, Sen. Tom Daschle, a young Democrat from South Dakota and protégé of then-Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine), led the fight to require oil companies to produce cleaner ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A gasoline additive that may cause cancer has had far less impact on the state’s drinking-water supply than expected, and replacing it will drive gasoline prices up to $1 billion more than Gov. Gray ...

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 researcher has discovered an effective way to remove a troubling new pollutant from our nation's water sources. Pratim Biswas, The Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering ...