Oil companies face lawsuit; New Hampshire claims gas additive, MTBE,...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 7, 2003 ;     378 words ......sued 22 major oil companies Monday because...found to pollute water, Gov. Craig Benson...claims that the oil companies have added increasing...would contaminate water supplies. "New Hampshire...settlement with oil companies last year over...Spokesmen for several ...

New Hampshire suing 22 oil companies over gasoline additive MTBE, linked...

AP Worldstream;  October 6, 2003 ;     301 words ......Hampshire The state sued 22 major oil companies Monday because of the gasoline...which has been found to pollute water, Gov. Craig Benson said. The lawsuit claims that the oil companies have added increasing amounts...years ago it would contaminate water supplies. "New ...

DEAL NEAR ON FUNDING CLEANUP OF GAS AGENT IN WATER SUPPLIES

The Boston Globe;  June 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that has been detected in water supplies across New England. The...special fund to decontaminate water supplies containing MTBE, and it...from MTBE producers and oil companies, the rest from the government...should pay to clean their water supplies. It is not clear ...

The city of Santa Monica, California.(sues 9 oil companies for alleged...

Public Works;  August 1, 2000 ;     188 words ......California, has sued nine oil companies for allegedly polluting the city's water supplies. The suit alleges the...MTBE and TBA from the water supplies, plus punitive damages...help clean MTBE from water supplies. The funding will accelerate...

Town sues Big Oil for MTBE damage.(Santa Monica sues at least seven oil...

National Petroleum News;  August 1, 2000 ;     394 words ......Santa Monica is suing 18 oil companies for damages that could...polluted city drinking-water wells with a possibly...officials are asking oil companies to pay clean-up and...found it contaminated water supplies and could cause cancer...had provided drinking water from ...

41 WATER SUPPLIES LOST SINCE '60 BY CONTAMINATION, REPORT SAYS

The Boston Globe;  January 14, 1987 ;     525 words ......Massachusetts communities to shut down water supplies since 1960, and officials have given...more municipalities" will lose their water supplies to chemical contamination if state...are insufficient to prevent losses of water supplies in the future," the commission wrote...

DA seeks to bring in big guns in fight with oil companies.(The Orange...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 17, 2001 ;     672 words ......talks on how much three oil companies will pay to clean underground...really gone after the oil companies in this particular way...lawsuits contend that the oil companies are responsible for widespread...gasoline. The threat to water supplies is not considered ...

Towns to get gas-lawsuit money ; Several oil companies agree to settle...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  May 9, 2008 ;     419 words ...Several big-name oil companies have settled a lawsuit concerning a dangerous chemical that leaked into water supplies across the country, including supplies in several South Shore towns. Leading oil companies including BP and Chevron have agreed to pay $423 million to municipalities ...

Environmental Working Group to Release First List of Community Water...

AScribe Law News Service;  October 1, 2003 ;     467 words ......Newswire) -- Drinking water supplies for over 15 million...plan - backed by big oil companies and oil-state politicians...contamination in tap water supplies increased more than...propensity to contaminate water supplies. The Environmental...

Russian City Cuts Water Supplies to 10,000

AP Online;  December 21, 2005 ;     534 words ......Russian city of Khabarovsk cut off water supplies to 10,000 people Wednesday as a toxic...580,000 and provides it with all its water supplies, so far had not detected chemicals...in the three districts were without water supplies as of Wednesday. The spill from a Chinese...

Fed: Inquiry into water and water supplies to be held

AAP General News (Australia);  July 3, 2002 ;     287 words ...00-00-0000 Fed: Inquiry into water and water supplies to be held CANBERRA, July 3 AAP - Water...vital the inquiry looked at future water supplies for Australia's rural industries and...industry production was at stake if water supplies and sustainability were not examined...

UK expects more cooperation with China in water supplies

Xinhua News Agency;  November 24, 2005 ;     183 words ......expects more cooperation with China in water supplies CHONGQING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The United Kingdom water supplies delegation expresses hearty wishes...in southwest China Thursday. "The water supplies industry is one of the five key...

NSW: Emergency water supplies trucked into country towns

AAP General News (Australia);  October 23, 2002 ;     195 words ...00-00-0000 NSW: Emergency water supplies trucked into country towns SYDNEY...Minister John Aquilina said water supplies were being trucked almost daily...affected by the drought. He said water supplies had failed in the towns of Tibooburra...

ILLINOIS EPA ISSUES ANNUAL COMPLIANCE REPORT FOR STATE'S PUBLIC DRINKING...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 26, 2008 ;     675 words ......release: The majority of Illinois public water supplies met all state and federal health requirements...those served by Illinois community water supplies in calendar year 2007 received drinking...all health requirements. Community water supplies serve 11,934,918 persons. "The ...

Russian city cuts water supplies to 10,000 people as Chinese chemical...

AP Worldstream;  December 21, 2005 ;     529 words ......Russian city of Khabarovsk cut off water supplies to 10,000 inhabitants Wednesday as...people and provides it with all its water supplies, so far had not detected chemicals...pass through Khabarovsk. Popov said water supplies to other parts of the city should be...