A year after a major methane leak from underground gas storage, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky wells across the United States.
The CPUC proposal comes as residents and environmental activists urge officials to shut down the facility, site of the massive 2015 leak. SoCal Gas insists the site is safe and necessary to meet state's energy demands.
California's public utilities regulators voted unanimously to allow increased storage of natural gas at the troubled Aliso Canyon facility near Porter Ranch that was the site of the nation's worst gas blowout in 2015.