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Santa Monica MTBE

NPR
Published August 10, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

The city of Santa Monica was one of the first communities in the nation to discover that its underground water source was contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. Now they are suing seven major oil companies for the money to pay for the cleanup. Nova Safo reports from Santa Monica.

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