New Hampshire’s groundwater has been contaminated by the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a chemical that has dramatic repercussions on the environment. Once in the groundwater, MTBE can be difficult and expensive to treat and remove. New Hampshire hopes to hold the oil corporations that used MTBE in their gasoline accountable for the pollution caused by the additive through the Superior Court case State of New Hampshire v. Hess Corporation et al. This project both summarizes background research on MTBE and its implications on New Hampshire’s groundwater, as well as provides an amicus curiae brief in support of the state of New Hampshire in the case against the oil corporations.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Brennan, Susan Marie

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030313-015941

Advisor

• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2013

Sponsor

• Aerodyne Research Inc.

Date created

• 2013-03-03

Location

• Concord

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Environmental & Sustainability Studies

Rights statement

• In Copyright