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Reno Gazette-Journal Wednesday, January 20, 1999 5A 7imm Lawsuit accuses oil firms of polluting ground water Susanville San 6 4 LotAng San Diego DUE TO FIRE DAMAGE, m. t. iw IS SEEING PATIENTS AT: 22 BmNkby Ave. PLEASE CALL 7278088 California's 1986 initiative that prohibited discharging substances that cause cancer or birth defects into drinking water. The suit seeks penalties of $2,500 per day for discharge of each substance over a four-year period, and damages equal to the amounts oil companies saved by allegedly failing to fix or prevent leaks." Drury said the damages would be in the billions of dollars and, along with the penalties, should be used to clean up the ater.

David Fogarty, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, which includes most major oil companies, had no comment on the suit. CALIFORNIA Marathon slaying case going to jury 1 SANTA ANA One of California's longest and costliest murder cases goes next week to a jury of nine women'and three men who will decide the fate of accused killer Charles Ng without hearing his testimony. If convicted, Ng could be sentenced to death. Ng, 38, is accused of murdering seven men, three women and two baby boys in 1984 and 1985. Prosecutors allege the female victims were imprisoned, tortured and raped after being lured to a cabin belonging to Ng survivalist pal, Leonard Lake, in Wilseyville.

The site, where human remains were found buried in shallow trenches, is in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about 150 miles east of San Francisco, where Ng lived at the time. The defense has sought to blame the killings on Lake. In a surprise move this month, defense attorney William Kelley indicated he would call Ng to the stand presumably to deny taking part in several of the 12 murders. In a surprise move this month, defense attorney William Kelley indicated he would call Ng to the stand presumably to deny taking part in several of the 12 murders. With the jury absent Tuesday, defense attorney William Kelley argued that Superior Court SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An environmental organization sued 14 oil companies for billions of dollars Tuesday, accusing them of polluting sources of California's drinking water with toxic leaks from retmeries, pipelines and storage tanks.

Communities for a Better Environment also contends that state water boards stood idly by as ground water was contaminated by benzene ahd toluene from 3,500 sites, some in every county of the state. The Superior Court su targets only the oil companiei and does not name state officials orkhe gas stations where most of the storage tanks are located. "Water boards and the attorney general nave known about this contamination for a decade now and have donelyirtually nothing to clean it up," said Richard Drury, legal director ofCBE. "This case will send a strong message to all polluters in the only language that they understand," said Denny Larson, the group's Northern California director. If you pollute our ground water, you will have to clean it up." Benzene and toluene are both known to cause cincer.

A separate CBE suit, filed in Superior Court last year, accuses eight oil companies of contaminating ground water with the gasoline Additive MTBE, a possible carcinogef Tuesday's suit accuses the companiei of violating Proposition 65, Judge John J. Ryan should limit Ng's testimony to five murders and bar prosecutors from questioning him about the others. Small earthquakes hit desert in Inyo County 2 CHINA LAKE NAVAL WEAPONS CENTER Two small earthquakes shook the Inyo County desert Tuesday, part of a swarm of more than a dozen minor quakes in the area. There were no reports of injury or damage. A quake struck six miles east of Coso Junction at 4:53 p.m., said seismologist Joe Franck of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Earlier, a temblor hit at 2:25 p.m. in the same area, Franck said. The two quakes were largest of more than a dozen quakes to hit the area Tuesday. mamm. em uammnmm mi wm Iran r-v Ill DON'T JUST MAKE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS.

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