Oil Companies to Pay $422 Million And Treat Wells for MTBE


	Oil Companies to Pay $422 Million And Treat Wells for MTBE

_jaja_

5-15-2008 8:22 AM

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water, contamination, mtbe

_jaja_ says:

You never know whats in your water....

"The American public should not have been used as guinea pigs."

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