New Hampshire reached a $35 million settlement of a groundwater contamination lawsuit with Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB, RDSA.LN, RDSB.LN) unit Shell Oil Co. and Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) unit Sunoco Inc., Bloomberg News reported Thursday.

Attorney General Michael Delaney said the state could seek "several hundreds of millions" of dollars from other defendants, including Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and ConocoPhillips (COP), in a trial slated to begin in January, Bloomberg reported.

Full story at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/new-hampshire-settles-with-shell-sunoco-over-contamination-1-.html

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