Article: PROCESS PURIFIES WATER; FIRM FINDS WAY TO EXTRACT POLLUTANT.(News)

Article: Governor delays ban on MTBE for a year.(Knight Ridder ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... which were found to have enough MTBE to raise health concerns, according ... officials said the spread of MTBE pollution is slowing because ... Still, tests performed by state water regulators appear to show that ... out of the new tanks and that MTBE is escaping as a result. Regulators ...

Article: Sacramento County, Calif., Utilities Sue for Cleanup of Gasoline ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... safely. Refineries have removed MTBE from about 80 percent of the ... California Energy Commission. But MTBE's legacy is expected to live ... contaminated with the compound, state water enforcement officials said ... Sacramento, has reported having MTBE in its wells. Fruitridge is ...

Article: Bass's plan for MTBE backfires; Energy bill compromise ...
Concord Monitor;  July 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... costs of cleansing groundwater of MTBE, a chemical that helps gasoline burn cleaner. MTBE can make water taste and smell foul ... In 2002, nearly 15 percent of state water systems contained some level of MTBE. For years, the MTBE problem has ...

Article: California Newspapers Say 'Time to Replace MTBE,' Cite ...
PR Newswire;  June 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the controversial gasoline additive MTBE, following a laboratory report that ... not leaking gasoline tanks. It is MTBE. State water officials should be doing all they ... Tosco Refining Co. has replaced MTBE with ethanol in a pilot project involving ...

Article: MTBE OK'D FOR RACE HEALTH DEPARTMENT GIVES ONE-TIME BYE TO ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Geologic Survey reported detecting MTBE in 21 percent of groundwater ... was used. California banned MTBE in 1999, but the ban didn ... banning the chemical reads: ``MTBE may be a human carcinogen and ... Steve Glazer, who follows state water pollution issues for the Sierra ...

Article: New California MTBE Reports: Is Oil Industry 'Addicted' to ...
PR Newswire;  September 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Tons of the chemical (MTBE) are entering the air daily ... reducing pollutants without MTBE as it is with it." The newspaper articles also quoted a state water expert who was asked "why the ... industry has gotten addicted to MTBE, just like a drug addict ...

Article: Oil companies ordered to remove MTBE from sites.(Knight ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... accusing them of concealing the MTBE threat to water, the five companies ... puts teeth in the law requiring MTBE be removed from our water ... and still must answer to the state water pollution boards that regulate ... should forfeit profits from all MTBE use because they had concealed ...