Anadarko Fights Ailing Preacher in $25 Billion EPA Toxic Lawsuit

Reverend Steven Jamison recalls the February day 13 years ago when he was digging ditches to replace culverts at his Maranatha Faith Center in Columbus, Mississippi. As he switched from a shovel to an excavator, an oily black substance began to fill the trench. It smelled like turpentine, and the deeper he dug, the more he saw, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its June issue.

“We called the city right away to come and look,” says Jamison, 58, a Pentecostal minister whose speech quickens as he relives the incident. “They told us they thought we’d hit creosote.”