CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire is a big step closer to getting a $236 million judgment after the U.S. Supreme Court said this week it wouldn't hear Exxon Mobil's appeal regarding its use of a gasoline additive that contaminated groundwater in the state.
The case involved MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, a petroleum-based gasoline additive that has been used since the 1970s to reduce smog-causing emissions. The trial resulted in the largest jury award in the state's history, and the state and Exxon could agree on the exact amount, which will include interest, as early as June.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The congressional panel investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans will release its report on the incident in the next month, the congressman leading the inquiry told cable-television network MSNBC on Friday.
U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is in charge of the two-year-old investigation in the House of Representatives, told the network that the committee's report would be finished and released before Republican and Democratic political parties hold conventions in July to nominate candidates for the 2016 presidential elections.
