![]() ![]() On August 8, 2018, the California attorney general, Los Angeles city and county officials, and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) lodged a proposed consent decree in the California Superior Court that would resolve the governmental parties’ civil claims arising from the natural gas leak from SoCalGas’s Aliso Canyon storage facility in 2015. to Mitigate Methane Emissions, Fund Environmental Projects to Resolve Governmental Claims Arising from Aliso Canyon Gas Leak. CARB said that biomethane generated at dairies would be injected into the pipeline system for use as transportation fuel, which would help to prevent localized nitrogen oxides emissions generated by biomethane’s use for electrical generation. SoCalGas must pay $119.5 million, which includes $26.5 million for addressing methane emissions from dairies, as well as $45.4 million for a supplemental environmental project run by the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, and the California Attorney General’s Office $21 million in civil penalties $19 million to cover governmental response and litigation costs and $7.6 million to be held in reserve for mitigation, if needed. CARB said the settlement, which was announced in August 2018, would fully mitigate the 109,000 metric tons of methane released during the leak. On February 25, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that a California Superior Court had approved a settlement with Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) in the lawsuit arising from the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak that began in 2015. Court's approval of settlement announced.ĬARB Announced Approval of Settlement of SoCalGas That Will Fully Mitigate Methane Released During Aliso Canyon Gas Leak. ![]()
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