{"id":19186,"date":"2016-03-26T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19186"},"modified":"2016-03-26T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T21:18:57","slug":"this-is-whats-happening-to-people-who-live-near-the-worst-gas-leak-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19186","title":{"rendered":"This Is What\u2019s Happening to People Who Live near the Worst Gas Leak in US History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Is What\u2019s Happening to People Who Live near the Worst Gas Leak in US History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)\u00a0<\/b>Porter Ranch, CA \u2014\u00a0<\/i>On February 18, SoCalGas and the national media declared the \u201cworst methane gas leak in U.S. history<\/a>\u201d permanently sealed, but just over a month later, hundreds of Porter Ranch residents who evacuated \u2014 and are now returning home \u2014 are suffering the same symptoms they suffered when the gas leak was active. They are experiencing nausea, dizziness, fatigue, headaches, nosebleeds, and many, including children, are also experiencing a new ailment: irritated skin rashes across their bodies.<\/p>\n

Neither SoCalGas, which owns the Aliso Canyon facility, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, nor any other government agency has provided a concrete explanation for these continued symptoms. In fact, one of Los Angeles County\u2019s top medical officials recently told local physicians to\u00a0refrain from performing tests to determine what is causing the symptoms.\u00a0<\/i>Late last week, preliminary lab tests from an independent UCLA study found evidence of benzene, a carcinogen, in at least two Porter Ranch homes. Benzene was reported to have been released in the 100 metric tons of methane that spewed into the Los Angeles basin for four months \u2014 a fact SoCalGas previously attempted to\u00a0downplay and withhold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reemergence of Symptoms<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n

On March 4, Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitchell Englander\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0a press release reporting the Department of Public Health had received at least 150 complaints of reemerging symptoms, including nosebleeds, dizziness headaches, nausea, and skin rashes. Now, the Health Department says it has\u00a0received 300 complaints<\/a>\u00a0since residents began moving home after SoCalGas told them it was safe to do so.<\/p>\n

Many residents have said the rashes, which can be extensive, are new and did not occur during the initial, months-long gas leak from October to February. During that\u00a0time, thousands of families were evacuated and the Department of Public Health\u00a0received 700 health complaints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This Is What\u2019s Happening to People Who Live near the Worst Gas Leak in US History (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0Porter Ranch, CA \u2014\u00a0On February 18, SoCalGas and the national media declared the \u201cworst methane gas leak in U.S. history\u201d permanently sealed, but just over a month later, hundreds of Porter Ranch residents who evacuated \u2014 and are now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11556,8803,12055,2343,395,11632,13124,11655,827],"class_list":["post-19186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-aliso-canyon","tag-antimedia","tag-carey-wedler","tag-gas-leak","tag-health","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-methane-gas-leak","tag-socalgas","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19187,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19186\/revisions\/19187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}