Courthouse News Service: OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - BP and Arco intentionally disabled leak detection devices and failed to inspect and maintain underground storage tanks at 780 gas stations across California, the attorney general says in court.
Attorney General Kamala Harris and eight county district attorneys sued BP West Coast Products, BP Products North America and Atlantic Richfield Co., in Alameda County Court. Arco became a BP subsidiary in 2000.
The state accuses the oil companies of violating Health & Safety and Business & Professional Codes in storing, failing to maintain and handling of gasoline and hazardous wastes.
"Safe storage of gasoline is not only common sense, it is essential to protecting the integrity of California's groundwater resources," Harris said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
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