If this precedent stands, private industry can now be held financially liable for damages real or perceived due to practices imposed on it by legislation. Bill Wattenberg on KGO San Francisco has been on the MTBE scam for years.
How could it get into groundwater unless the underground gas tanks were leaking? Just because mom and pop gas stations don't have deep pockets, they want to sue the maker. Anyway, most gas stations are owned by oil companies and could afford to pay, if negligent.
Make the Sierra Club pay for it, they lobbied for the additive to be put in the gasoline...