LOS ANGELES - A stink is being raised over a $120 million court settlement from the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak and it’s not about money, but cow manure. “They get to count methane reduction that was already happening on the public dime,” said attorney Nina Robertson of Earthjustice. A court hearing is scheduled Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court to consider whether to give final approval of the settlement. “Without such an adjustment, the mitigation agreement grossly overstates SoCalGas’ contribution in achieving methane reductions and fails to constitute full mitigation for the Aliso disaster,” Robertson wrote. The air board did not respond directly to that criticism, but rejected the idea the utility was getting a subsidy toward mitigation.

Source: thestar February 25, 2019 05:03 UTC