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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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …