CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawyers for two big oil companies accuse New Hampshire lawyers of spinning a court room fiction in their quest to hold the companies liable for damages over the use of the gasoline additive MTBE
Attorney James Quinn, representing ExxonMobil, says MBTE was the most effective way to reduce air pollution in what was not a made-up health crisis, but a real crisis.
In his opening statement Monday, Quinn argued that experts estimate that 2 million lives were saved by reducing lead and other pollutants in auto emissions.
The state’s lawyers say ExxonMobil and Citgo should pay $ 700 million in damages to monitor and clean up groundwater contamination caused by MTBE, which is now banned in New Hampshire.
The jury trial started Monday and is expected to last four months.
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