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1 week, 5 days ago

Column: Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all

LA Times

Environmental activists and San Fernando Valley residents urge Gov. Linda Serizawa, who was tapped by Newsom to lead the utilities commission’s Public Advocates Office, said state officials have to be “very careful about setting unrealistic expectations” when it comes to closing Aliso. SoCalGas spokesperson Erica Berardi said in an email that the utility agrees with state officials that Aliso Canyon …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Plan to shutter Aliso Canyon gas facility isn’t moving fast enough for community activists

LA Times

North San Fernando Valley residents unfurl a banner during a 2019 rally marking the fourth anniversary of the SoCalGas blowout in Porter Ranch. Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Aliso Canyon could shut down in the not-too-distant future Nearly 10 years ago, the Aliso Canyon gas storage leak in Porter Ranch pumped 100,000 tons of methane …

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California regulators propose plan that could close Aliso Canyon. Or is it just ‘kicking the can’?

LA Times

North San Fernando Valley residents hold a rally near the entrance of Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility in Porter Ranch in October 2019. The California Public Utilities Commission this week unveiled a proposal that could potentially close the Aliso Canyon gas storage field in the coming years, but local activists and politicians say it doesn’t provide a …

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3 months, 1 week ago

SoCalGas to move from its longtime headquarters in downtown Los Angeles

LA Times

A view of Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles shows the Gas Company Tower to the left of the tallest building, U.S. Bank Tower. SoCalGas announced plans to move its offices from the Gas Company Tower to Two California Plaza. Southern California Gas Co. is planning to move from its longtime headquarters after signing the largest office lease of the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Disaster spreading in Rancho Palos Verdes: Gas will be shut off to 54 more homes as land shifts

LA Times

The road is closed to traffic on Exultant Drive, where land movement has caused large cracks in pavement and damage to nearby homes in Rancho Palos Verdes. Southern California Gas Co. is shutting off natural gas service to 54 more Rancho Palos Verdes homes because of additional land movement in the area. The utility on Thursday announced service would be …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

SoCalGas suddenly cuts service to 135 homes in Rancho Palos Verdes, citing land movement

LA Times

A road is closed in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes due to landslide damage. Coastal dwellers in Rancho Palos Verdes can now add gas shutoffs to the litany of headaches they have endured as a stretch of their idyllic community slips steadily to the sea. “Due to worsening land movement,” Southern California Gas Co. told Portguese Bend-area …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Want to know if your gas bill will increase this winter? SoCalGas can warn you with a text

LA Times

Southern California Gas recently created the Natural Gas Price Notice service, which gives customers a direct notice of potential increases to their bill this winter. In response to last winter’s abnormally high gas bills, the Southern California Gas Co. has launched a text-messaging service that aims to alert customers so they can adjust their gas and energy use accordingly. At …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Column: As help pours in for World War II vet, 102, with huge bill, SoCalGas wants a rate hike

LA Times

Paul Hult, a 102-year-old World War II veteran shown in his Hollywood apartment, reluctantly decided to accept help after he received a $526 gas bill. The utility’s parent company, Sempra, is lining up lucrative natural gas contracts in Europe, and paying its executives obscene amounts of money while SoCalGas sticks it to customers, Rogers said. “They have failed miserably, which …

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1 year, 10 months ago

The gas bill is $907.13? Sticker shock for Californians as prices soar

LA Times

Brent Eldridge, 48, received a $907.13 gas bill in January. Energy costs are a “crisis” that are walloping households already squeezed by inflation and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, who called an emergency meeting of the City Council this month to approve extra assistance for customers who can’t pay. “We know families …

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1 year, 10 months ago

California declared war on natural gas. Now the fight is going national

LA Times

This story originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Rep. Ronny Jackson’s response typified the outrage from conservatives, with the Texas Republican tweeting, “If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands.” Sen. Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat, joined with …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Angry about your gas bill? Spikes follow big raises for California utility executives

LA Times

One of about 100 environmentalists taking part in a demonstration in front of the Sempra Energy building in downtown San Diego last May protesting the company’s fossil fuel businesses. Several Southern California residents complained Thursday to the agency that oversees the state’s public utilities about the monopoly power of Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric, which …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Relief from sky-high gas bills is coming: California regulators order utilities to rush credits

LA Times

In response to a recent spike in the price of natural gas, the California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to pay annual gas and electric credits to consumers as soon as possible. “It is not a long-term solution to the trend we’re seeing around volatile natural gas prices,” Reynolds said, pointing to another commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday to discuss …

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1 year, 10 months ago

SoCalGas says skyrocketing gas bills will drop significantly in February

LA Times

Cooking with gas could get less expensive for Southern California consumers next month. With astronomical natural gas prices squeezing the pocketbooks of Southern California Gas Co.’s 21.8 million customers, the company says relief may be on the way as soon as next month. The utility attributed the drop in consumer gas prices primarily to a commensurate drop in the wholesale …

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1 year, 11 months ago

What's behind Southern California's soaring natural gas bills?

LA Times

Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric have issued stark warnings to customers that their January natural gas bills could double, citing factors for historically high wholesale costs that include sinking inventories, supply constraints and a cold start to winter that has soaked the West Coast. It’s a much different story in California, Yawger said, where wet …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Get ready for a massive SoCalGas bill this month, as natural gas prices soar

LA Times

Natural gas customers of Southern California Gas should brace for a price shock in January, as the commodity price for the fuel has tripled. The warning Southern California Gas Co. issued to its customers was unusually blunt: “There’s no easy way to put this,” the company said. Southern California Edison said rates will rise 7.2% in January, mainly because of …

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3 years ago

Will sprawling Tejon Ranch be good for climate change?

LA Times

Joshua trees with spiky branches clump together near the bottom of the Blue Ridge Range at Tejon Ranch. Transportation is by far the biggest source of climate pollution in California, responsible for nearly 40% of the state’s carbon emissions — about four times as much as gas heating and cooking. Tejon Ranch acknowledges its project would generate 500,000 metric tons …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: A billion-dollar settlement can’t erase the Aliso Canyon methane blowout

LA Times

Protestors hold hands as they were arrested by LAPD for failure to disperse after residents staged a sit-in blocking the entrance to the SoCal Gas Company Aliso Canyon facility in Porter Ranch in 2017 to mark the two-year anniversary of the gas leak. With the announcement Monday that Southern California Gas and its parent company will pay up to $1.8 …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Gas blowout near Los Angeles leads to up to $1.8B settlement

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to $1.8 billion with a utility, attorneys said Monday. The settlement with Southern California Gas Co. and its parent company, Sempra Energy, will compensate 35,000 plaintiffs from the 2015 blowout that took nearly …

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3 years, 2 months ago

SoCalGas agrees to pay up to $1.8 billion in settlement for 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak

LA Times

An infrared image released by the Environmental Defense Fund shows methane gas leaking from the Aliso Canyon facility near the Porter Ranch suburb of Los Angeles. Once the money is divided among thousands of plaintiffs, “if you do the math, we’re left with a small amount,” said Matt Pakucko, president of the group Save Porter Ranch. Although the utility was …

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3 years, 4 months ago

The San Diego energy company doubling down on fossil fuels

LA Times

This is the Aug. 12, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. “There’s a mountain of change between where we are here and where we would need to be.” A great deal of that change could involve California fossil fuel companies — including some that are working …

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3 years, 8 months ago

The next Aliso Canyon could happen on L.A.’s Westside

LA Times

A hub for Southern California Gas Co. infrastructure at the company’s storage facility in Playa del Rey, with the Ballona Wetlands in the background. Robert van de Hoek, president of the Ballona Institute, leads a tour near the Playa del Rey gas storage field, accompanied by Marcia Hanscom, the institute’s executive director, left. Pipelines rest against a bluff at SoCalGas’ …

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4 years, 1 month ago

The fossil fuel industry wants you to believe it’s good for people of color

LA Times

The letter to Mexico’s energy minister offered a glowing review of a fossil fuel project in Baja California. Writing in July, three U.S. governors and the chair of the Ute Indian Tribe praised the Energía Costa Azul project — which was seeking approval from the Mexican government — as “one of the most promising export facilities on the Pacific Coast.” …

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4 years, 1 month ago

SoCalGas should be fined $255 million for fighting climate action, watchdog says

LA Times

Southern California Gas Co. has said it did nothing wrong in opposing energy efficiency rules that it said would raise energy costs for its customers. The consumer watchdog arm of the California Public Utilities Commission has recommended the nation’s largest gas company be fined $255 million for trying to block energy efficiency rules and local gas bans, actions critics say …

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4 years, 4 months ago

California sued over climate change policy — by the nation’s biggest gas utility

LA Times

Southern California Gas Co. is taking its battle with state officials over climate change policy to court, arguing in a new lawsuit that the California Energy Commission has failed to promote natural gas as required by state law. A separate lawsuit was filed last week against the state’s Air Resources Board by the California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition, whose two …

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Column: Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all

Plan to shutter Aliso Canyon gas facility isn’t moving fast enough for community activists

California regulators propose plan that could close Aliso Canyon. Or is it just ‘kicking the can’?

SoCalGas to move from its longtime headquarters in downtown Los Angeles

Disaster spreading in Rancho Palos Verdes: Gas will be shut off to 54 more homes as land shifts

SoCalGas suddenly cuts service to 135 homes in Rancho Palos Verdes, citing land movement

Want to know if your gas bill will increase this winter? SoCalGas can warn you with a text

Column: As help pours in for World War II vet, 102, with huge bill, SoCalGas wants a rate hike

The gas bill is $907.13? Sticker shock for Californians as prices soar

California declared war on natural gas. Now the fight is going national

Angry about your gas bill? Spikes follow big raises for California utility executives

Relief from sky-high gas bills is coming: California regulators order utilities to rush credits

SoCalGas says skyrocketing gas bills will drop significantly in February

What's behind Southern California's soaring natural gas bills?

Get ready for a massive SoCalGas bill this month, as natural gas prices soar

Will sprawling Tejon Ranch be good for climate change?

Editorial: A billion-dollar settlement can’t erase the Aliso Canyon methane blowout

Gas blowout near Los Angeles leads to up to $1.8B settlement

SoCalGas agrees to pay up to $1.8 billion in settlement for 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak

The San Diego energy company doubling down on fossil fuels

The next Aliso Canyon could happen on L.A.’s Westside

The fossil fuel industry wants you to believe it’s good for people of color

SoCalGas should be fined $255 million for fighting climate action, watchdog says

California sued over climate change policy — by the nation’s biggest gas utility