Congress Needs to Act on MTBE"Superman is faster than a speeding bullet. Congress is more like a turtle slogging through a bog. It will get where it is going, but at its own pace and in its own time. Last week, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works approved a bill banning the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, a source of contamination for underground water. ". [A] federal law is better than a state-by-state approach. Some states - California among them - have banned MTBE, giving oil refiners a few years to find substitutes. "Changing the law is difficult, but worth the struggle, particularly in regard to getting rid of MTBE, a product that violates the old pioneer warning against poisoning the water hole." Editorial, |
