Southern California Gas provides service to 21 million customers.
He says they were only measuring methane, but he believes it is critical to get accurate measurements of other toxins that may be in the air, potentially including benzene, toluene and xylene.
Why was he not thinking about those things before it happened? Oil that leaked from the Deepwater Horizon offshore well left a highly visible trail Widely publicized photographs of sea life covered in oil were daily reminders of the environmental damage.
But residents in the area say mercaptan has also made them sick.
But accusations have arisen that the leak was the result of negligence.
Is the methane gas leak an invisible climate threat? Morris and others with Save Porter Ranch initiated the shutitalldown campaign to protect the area Southern California's air quality regulator also recently filed a civil lawsuit in superior court against SoCal Gas, blaming the leak on operational failures.