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In Re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:00-cv-01898

Court:

New York Southern

Nature of Suit:

Prop. Damage Prod. Liability

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Vernon S. Broderick

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  1. April 25, 2025

    Exxon Can't Use $8.5M Deal To Skirt Pa. Suit, Judge Says

    Exxon Mobil Corp. and ExxonMobil Oil Corp. can't use an $8.5 million settlement from 2012 to escape Pennsylvania's drinking water contamination suit, a New York federal judge has ruled.

  2. June 04, 2021

    Attys For NJ Nab $2.5M Fee Award For MTBE MDL Deals

    A New York federal judge has granted almost $2.5 million in fees for attorneys who helped secure more than $16.3 million in settlements to resolve claims that a TotalEnergies unit and others contributed to gasoline additive contamination in New Jersey drinking water.

  3. January 24, 2019

    BP To Pay Calif. Water District $14M To End MTBE Suit

    BP subsidiaries told a California federal court they will pay $14 million to resolve claims that a gasoline additive contaminated California drinking water, and also disclosed that Exxon Mobil and Shell have agreed to make a joint $12.5 million payment in the case.

  4. September 14, 2017

    Trammo Off The Hook For Good In Puerto Rico's MTBE MDL

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday tossed claims against Trammo Petroleum Inc. brought by Puerto Rico in multidistrict litigation alleging gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether contaminated the territory's waters.

  5. April 18, 2016

    Puerto Rico Gets Trammo Back On The Hook In MTBE MDL

    A New York federal judge on Friday revived Puerto Rico's pollution claims against Trammo Petroleum Inc. in multidistrict litigation over contamination from gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, saying new evidence defeated the company's claim that it was targeted in "a case of mistaken identity."

  6. December 02, 2015

    BP, Shell's Exit From Tainted Water Case Headed To 2nd Circ.

    A New York federal judge cleared the way Tuesday for an immediate appeal to the Second Circuit of rulings that freed BP and Shell from claims by a California water district that they, along with a host of others, tainted Orange County's water supply with their use of a gasoline additive.

  7. November 04, 2015

    Chevron, Others Can't Dodge Puerto Rico's MTBE Suit

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid by dozens of oil and gas companies to escape Puerto Rico's lawsuit that alleges they contaminated its groundwater with the common gasoline additive methyl-tertiary butyl ether.

  8. October 19, 2015

    Duke Energy To Pay NJ $1.7M For Water Contamination

    Duke Energy Merchants LLC has agreed to pay $1.7 million to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to settle the state's lawsuit over water contamination caused by the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, according to a notice in the New Jersey Register on Monday.

  9. October 16, 2015

    Esso Says Puerto Rico's MTBE Pollution Claims Are Too Late

    Esso Standard Oil Co. Puerto Rico insisted Thursday that in refusing to cut a "release site" from Puerto Rico's suit over groundwater allegedly contaminated with methyl-tertiary butyl ether, a New York federal judge had overlooked proof the claims at the site came too late.

  10. August 20, 2015

    Defective Design Claims Get 2nd Try In Puerto Rico MTBE MDL

    A New York federal judge changed course Wednesday in Puerto Rico's suit accusing Shell Oil Co. and others of contaminating its groundwater with a common gasoline additive, saying she had overlooked important evidence in her previous decision dismissing claims that the additive-laced gasoline was defectively designed.