Exxon Mobil to Seek Second MTBE Win in New Hampshire Appeal
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Exxon Mobil Corp. will appeal a $236 million New Hampshire verdict in a case over the use of the gasoline additive MTBE, after having gotten a much larger award in a similar dispute thrown out by a court in Maryland.
After an almost three-month trial, a jury in Concord took about three hours to find Exxon Mobil negligent for putting the additive in gasoline without warning the state of its risks, and that the company should pay for contaminating New Hampshire’s groundwater.