ExxonMobil Overrode Anti-MTBE Recommendation, Jury Is Told

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An ExxonMobil Corp. executive approved the use of an additive to gasoline despite a colleague’s recommendation against using it because of the risk of well contamination, a New Hampshire jury was told.

Robert Larkins, a former vice president of marketing for Exxon in the 1980s, testified today in a recorded deposition played in state court.