The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has reached a $39 million consent agreement with Phillips 66 Co. over claims that it produced gasoline that contaminated the state’s waterways with the additive MTBE.

The settlement ends a decade of litigation by the state over liability for gasoline containing MTBE—methyl tertiary butyl ether—that was supplied to the New Jersey market by the Bayway Refinery in Linden.

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