California gas leak News

California Completes Gas Well Review a Year After Blowout

A California natural gas storage facility where a blowout spewed methane for nearly four months has completed a safety review required to resume operations, though it might never return to full capacity, state officials said Tuesday. The Southern California Gas …

Toxic Metals Found in Los Angeles Homes Near Gas Leak

Homes located near a gas well blowout that spewed the nation’s largest-known release of methane had higher levels of toxic metals that could have caused symptoms Los Angeles residents have suffered from for months, public health officials said. Tests found …

California Families Remain in Limbo 2 Months After Gas Blowout

It’s been two months since a blown-out natural gas well was capped and officials spoke of thousands of uprooted families returning to their normal lives. But nearly half of the 8,000 families who left home at some point have yet …

Federal Task Force to Review Massive California Natural Gas Leak

A new U.S. government task force will look into the country’s biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, California, hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent greenhouse gas from storage wells, the …

California Gas Company Faces New Rules After Methane Leak

The gas-storage facility that spewed methane uncontrollably for almost four months, driving thousands of families from their homes, won’t resume operations until it has undergone tougher tests than ever required before, a process that will take months and perhaps even …

Gas Leak That Led to Fire in California is Capped

Officials say a gas main leak that led to an underground fire in Oakland, Calif, and forced the evacuation of several homes has been capped. No injuries were reported. Fire officials told the Oakland Tribune the line was capped Tuesday, …