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The Los Angeles Fires and the Overblown Role of Public Policy . California, of course, has many bad public policies. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a bad California policy.
California’s Public Utilities Commission launched its Long-Term Gas Planning Proceeding in 2020 to find proactive solutions to this very problem but four years later, they have little to show ...
The death toll from the most and second-most destructive fires in Southern California history stands at 27. The number of missing has fluctuated as high as two dozen as crews with cadaver dogs ...
December 25, 2016 – A fire broke out at a gas compressor station, in Armstrong County. [147] January 1, 2017 – Fire erupts at Marcellus Shale pad in Somerset Township, Washington County. [148] March 9, 2017 – A fire at a Susquehanna County gas compressor station. [149] November 30, 2017 - A gas well pad fire in Somerset County. [150]
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
Victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, likely the costliest in U.S. history, are seizing upon a unique California legal doctrine that allows them to collect from their power utility if its ...
The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 miles (3.2 km) west of San Francisco International Airport [4] near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue. [5]
California voters in 2014 passed Proposition 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act, which authorized $7.12 billion in bond issues; it's one of eight water-related bond ...