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Regulators approve health study on huge California gas leak
2016-01-24 03:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Regional air quality regulators in California voted on Saturday to require the utility responsible for a ruptured underground pipeline in the Los Angeles area to underwrite an independent study on the health effects of a huge methane leak from the site. The natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon, just outside the Los Angeles neighborhood of Porter Ranch, began on Oct. 23 and ranks as the worst ever in California. Odorized methane fumes sickened scores of people and led to the temporary relocation...
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Apparent gas leak at Des Plaines Jewel-Osco
2016-01-23 23:49:44| Grocery - Topix.net
Saturday morning shoppers were being turned away at a Des Plaines grocery store due to an apparent gas leak inside the store. Des Plaines firefighters responded to Jewel-Osco at Elmhurst Road and Dempster Street, and all doors were opened to air the store out.
California gas leak spotlights shoddy regulation of nation aging underground infrastructure
2016-01-23 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Long before a natural gas storage well sprung a disastrous leak near Los Angeles, utilities and national industry groups were raising alarms about the danger of aging underground storage infrastructure. The leaking well`s owner, Southern California Gas Co. warned state utility regulators in 2014 of "major failures" without a rate hike to pay for comprehensive inspections of 229 storage wells. Twenty-six of its wells were "high risk" and should be abandoned -- even though they complied with...
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California gas leak spotlights shoddy regulation of aging storage wells
2016-01-23 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Long before a natural gas storage well sprung a disastrous leak near Los Angeles, California, utilities and national industry groups were raising alarms about the danger of aging underground storage infrastructure. The leaking wells owner, Southern California Gas Co, warned state utility regulators in 2014 of major failures without a rate hike to pay for comprehensive inspections of 229 storage wells. Twenty-six of its wells were high risk and should be abandoned - even though they complied...
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Capping the Porter Ranch gas leak isn't enough
2016-01-22 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: While the Southern California Gas Co. continues its work on a relief well that will, hopefully, stop the three-month-long gas leak near Porter Ranch, lawmakers are beginning on the next essential step: developing regulations to reduce the risk of another massive leak from an underground natural gas storage facility that will once again sicken people and wreak havoc on the environment. The human and financial impact from the current leak has been tremendous. Some 2,600 families have temporarily...
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