ENERGY

Mobil Settles Air Pollution Suit With EPA: Mobil Oil Corp. has agreed to pay $950,000--the largest penalty imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in California for violation of the federal Clean Air Act--to settle charges stemming from a Bakersfield plant’s emissions. The facility, which makes polystyrene foam, was charged with emitting too many volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, from 1983 to 1985. VOCs in sunlight produce ozone. Bakersfield is among those California areas that still fail to meet federal standards limiting ozone emissions.