The STRUGGLE TO BAN M-T-B-E (Part 2)

The Environmental Protection Agency recently recommended banning an ingredient commonly used in gasoline. The additive, called methyl tertiary butyl ether, or M-T-B-E, has drastically helped reduce air pollution. But it’s also leaking from gas tanks and contaminating groundwater. Banning M-T-B-E is proving to be no simple task. In the second of a two part series, The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Julie Halpert reports on the heated deliberations: