Pipeline units ask for suit’s dismissal

Two Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiaries filed a motion late Friday seeking to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by the Arkansas attorney general and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas over the March 29 pipeline rupture that spilled thousands of gallons of crude oil into a Mayflower subdivision.

The companies are accused of violating the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act, the Arkansas Hazardous Waste Management Act, the federal Oil Pollution Act and the federal Clean Water Act.

Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. and Mobil Pipe Line Co. argued in a brief in support of the motion that the plaintiffs fail to plead sufficient facts to support their claims. The brief also argues that the court lacks jurisdiction over at least one of the claims.

Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. operates the 850-mile-long Pegasus pipeline. Mobil Pipe Line Co. owns the more than 60-year-old pipeline, which runs from Illinois to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Northwest Arkansas, Pages 16 on 08/25/2013

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