Suit Challenges Warm Gasoline
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The suit accuses oil companies and gas stations of overcharging customers at the pump by failing to compensate for changes in gasoline volumes when temperatures rise.
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FRESNO, Calif. -- Automobile manufacturers sued on Tuesday to block the world&#39;s toughest vehicle emissions standards, adopted by California regulators in September to cut greenhouse gases.
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By MICHAEL GORMLEY  ALBANY, N.Y. - More than a dozen states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to lower soot levels from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, a move the state officials argue would save thousands of lives.
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The green sports car race is hyped this week with a hybrid Honda mean machine. Have fun, but hold off on the eco kudos -- these rides burn hydrocarbons. In Epicenter.
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The suit seeks $1 billion in damages and an injunction against further violations.
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Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly sued Lyons Fuel of Arlington for allegedly failing to honor fixed-priced heating oil contracts this winter. Reilly's suit alleges Lyons agreed to sell oil at $1.39 a gallon all winter long to some customers but then charged them $1.73 a gallon. Lyons is the second heating oil dealer Reilly has charged with violating fixed-priced contracts ...
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The auto industry has decided to embrace the new fuel standards out of Washington. But it is still fighting tougher state laws.
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To Texas litigator Scott Summy, methyl tertiary butyl ether, the gasoline additive that reduces air pollution, is the devil--and his savior. He claims to have proof that Big Oil knew that MTBE-laced gasoline would leak out of filling station tanks into the ground and contaminate water supplies across America--and is therefore culpable in a big public hazard. "We are talking about the public's drinking water, and these guys have intentionally contaminated it to the largest scale ever in this country," says Summy.
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The court will consider whether punitive damages can be imposed in the 1989 disaster, an issue worth $2.5 billion to ExxonMobil.
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California filed suit against   Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and   three other carmakers on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse   gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of   dollars.
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NEW ORLEANS The constitutionality of a federal law used to prosecute energy-trading companies and their workers has landed before a federal appeals court.
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The companyâs lawyers had attempted to gain the upper hand in a patent case by highlighting safety concerns about the companyâs own product.
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California on Wednesday sued six   of the world's largest automakers, including General Motors   Corp. GM.N and Toyota Motor Corp. 7203.T, over global   warming, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles   have caused billions of dollars in damages.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Plaintiffs in the long-running case surrounding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a $5 billion punitive fine against Exxon Mobil Corp, a petition filed with highest U.S. court shows.
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California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for denying its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs.
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'What could possibly go wrong?' wonders Reuters RoTM The indolent Dutch may come to rue the day they ever heard the name of Nico van Staveren, petrol station operator and co-developer of a gas-pumping robot which can allegedly recognise your make of car, whip off the petrol cap and deliver the required amount of combustible.â¦
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.