Environmental
Feb. 11, 2016
Porter Ranch: A nightmare years in the making
Although it would be easy to place all of the blame on SoCal Gas, the story and context are a bit more nuanced. By Sarah Duffy
Since Oct. 23, 2015, a leak in a natural gas well has been releasing methane near the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles. The leak is a very damaging environmental emergency due to methane's potency as a greenhouse gas - about 80 times more heat-trapping than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) estimated that as of Feb. 4, the leak had emitted about 2.3 million metric tons of carbon d...
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