Natch Gas News Today

Natch gas so you can smell it when its leaking. people nearby have been getting headaches and nosebleeds and respiratory problems. one town has been evacuated. the city of l.a. is suing the company that owns the well. and its way not over. the company says they dont know how to stop this leak. they say it may take four months to drill a new well in order to stop the leak in the old one. four months. and in the meantime, the scale of this thing is nuts. state air quality regulators estimate its l...

Pollution was 40 times the level the world health organization says is safe. air pollution is so bad now that sometimes the result -- it results in highway closures because you literally cannot see through the air well enough to drive safely at that speed. air pollution is a visible problem in china in all its terrifying toxic awfulness. you can look at it. not every environmental disaster comes billowing at you in ways you can see. but when it comes to reacting to disasters like that, then insp...

Disasters like that, then inspiring action, seeing it, sometimes helps. last week we reported on a giant ongoing pollution disaster, a huge gas leak in california. the san fernando valley in southern california. the leak is coming from a storage facility, a storage well more than 8,000 feet under ground. it went bad in october. its been leaking natural gas, plus the additive they put in natch gas so you can smell it when its leaking. people nearby have been getting headaches and nosebleeds and r...