Legal Opinion
In Re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 23, 2006No. MDL 1358(SAS). No. M 21-88. No. 1:00-1898PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In this consolidated multi-district litigation (“MDL”), plaintiffs seek relief from contamination, or threatened contamination, of groundwater from various defendants’ use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (“MTBE”) and/or tertiary butyl alcohol (“TBA”), a product that is formed by the natural degradation of MTBE in water. Defendants now move for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiffs’ claims are conflict preempted by the Clean Air Act (“CAA”) because first, “compliance with both federal and state regulations is a…
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