Sharon McNary

A state study says leaks in California's gas distribution system, from meter leaks to big pipe leaks, put more methane into the atmosphere in a year than the massive Aliso Canyon leak did in four months.

Southern California Gas Company was close to completing safety requirements to resume injecting gas into the underground field, but the county lawsuit seeks to stop it.

Los Angeles County voters will decide on a sales tax for homeless services. In L.A. city, the mayorship, eight council seats and several measures are on the ballot.

The plan aims to cut smog by more than 50 percent over within ten year period.

The utility and air quality agency completed the deal that drew objections from an independent air hearing board over the small size of the health study.

Newly strengthened provisions of California's toxic spill law allow cities to require refineries to evaluate their technology and identify safer alternatives.

A City Council workshop Tuesday will include a city fire official making the case that MHF, as used at the Torrance Refinery, is safe.

The chair of the AQMD's governing board complains they hire and pay members of a hearing board that enforces air rules but has no power to remove those members.

There were no evacuations or injuries as a result of this explosion, which came exactly two years after the explosion at the refinery that was so massive it registered as a magnitude-1.7 tremor.

The refinery has had to flare off gases during power outages that were outside its control, caused by reasons from Mylar balloons to fog. A new power line could prevent that.

Environmentalists sued Los Angeles County over plans to clear the basin behind Devil's Gate Dam north of the Rose Bowl. A judge found flaws in the plan

California state officials and SoCal Gas are close to returning the gas storage field to use. For at least one state senator, a crucial step is missing.