Politics & Government

Evanston Sues Chevron, Wants Oil Giant to Clean Up Church Street Gas Station

The City of Evanston says it has evidence of gasoline storage tanks leaking contaminates into the soil at the gas station.

The City of Evanston is suing Chevron over pollution at a former gas station on Church Street, claiming at least two gasoline storage tanks leaked contaminants into the soil during the 1960s, according to the Evanston Review. 

Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, operated and owned the gas station at 1801-05 Church Street from about 1925 through the 1970s, and the city of Evanston says the company received a violation notice in 2000 for improperly abandoning leaking storage tanks on the site and not correcting the problem, the Review reported.


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