Summy started representing cities and public water authorities and went after companies that produced MTBE.
FORBES: Demonizing for Dollars
Summy represents 90% or so of the 140 municipalities, public utilities and water companies that have filed suit.
To Texas litigator Scott Summy, methyl tertiary butyl ether, the gasoline additive that reduces air pollution, is the devil--and his savior.
To do so Summy had to designate the additive a defective product.
Summy, 40, filed the nation's first MTBE lawsuit in 1995.
Whatever his plans, he and Summy have created a monster.
To prove that MTBE concentrations below the EPA's threshold still made water taste terrible, Summy unearthed documents like a 1983 Shell letter detailing that water was no longer drinkable where MTBE'S concentration was 7 to 15 parts per billion.
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