Could SoCal Gas Have Prevented the Porter Ranch Gas Leak?

Which Way, L.A.?

Could SoCal Gas Have Prevented the Porter Ranch Gas Leak?

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Published on Jan 4, 2016, 7:00:00 PM
Total time: 00:25:01

Episode Description

The continuing gas leak that's moving thousands of families out of their homes is an ecological disaster of national proportion. It constitutes 21% of the state's methane emissions and 2.3% of its entire carbon footprint. Now it turns out that Southern California Gas Company removed a safety valve that could have stopped the leaking from pipes it knew were not just decades old but likely to have been corroded.

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