Toxics

API, IPAA Rip Source Performance Standards for Fractured Wells

Two Washington, DC-based groups representing oil and gas producers have protested the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final new source performance standards, which are aimed at restricting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and sulfur dioxide emissions from onshore natural gas operations, including hydraulically fractured (fracked) wells. One of the groups is seeking a stay of the EPA’s action.

August 20, 2012

Environmental Group Sues SoCal Gas Alleging Toxic Leaks

An Oakland, CA-based environmental legal group filed a lawsuit against Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. alleging leakage of toxics into groundwater from the utility’s smallest underground storage field along the coast at Marina del Rey. A utility spokesperson strongly denied that any gas has seeped from the Playa del Rey storage facility.

January 22, 2007

Environmental Group Sues SoCal Gas Alleging Toxic Leaks

An Oakland, CA-based environmental legal group Thursday filed a lawsuit against Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. alleging leakage of toxics into groundwater from the utility’s smallest underground storage field along the coast at Marina del Rey. A utility spokesperson strongly denied that any gas has seeped from the Playa del Rey storage facility.

January 16, 2007