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Article: United States : Exxon Mobil loses 2nd phase of New York water trial.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- August 27, 2009
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Exxon Mobil Corp. lost the second phase of a trial in which New York accused the company of poisoning the city's groundwater, with a jury ruling that a gas additive will be in water wells in 2033.
The case is part of larger litigation over MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether. More than 70 lawsuits filed by water providers and state and local governments were consolidated before U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin for pretrial information-gathering, according to an industry Web site.
The trial moves to the third of four phases. On Aug. 12, the jury found in the first phase that the city intends to build a plant to treat the ...