Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 4, 2021
By: Sebastien Malo

A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday mostly denied a bid by Exxon Mobil Corp and dozens of other defendants to toss claims that they contaminated the state’s groundwaters with a gasoline additive.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Baltimore denied the defendants’ request to throw out about a dozen claims accusing them of sullying groundwater at 41 sites with methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE. She agreed to toss one claim alleging the companies should be held liable under a state environmental abatement provision. Read more.