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Environmental

May 1, 1999

MTBE May Disappear From States Gas Tanks, But Oil Company Liability Is Not Going Away

SAN FRANCISCO - California's failed experiment with MTBE appears unlikely to end with the chemical's gradual elimination from motorists' gas tanks as ordered by Gov. Gray Davis, with activists determined to prod the state into designating the substance a cancer threat.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - California's failed experiment with MTBE appears unlikely to end with the chemical's gradual elimination from motorists' gas tanks as ordered by Gov. Gray Davis, with activists determined to prod the state into designating the substance a cancer threat.
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