The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has proposed a regulation to require automatic shutoff valves or similar technology on new and rebuilt pipelines that carry natural gas and hazardous liquids. Under ...

More than 100,000 homes a year would get automatic shutoff valves on the natural gas lines they’re connected to under a rule proposed recently by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Excess flow ...

Your house may be missing a piece of hardware that could save lives or property damage during the next earthquake in Washington state. A seismic shut-off valve, also ...

Pacific Gas and Electric employees tried to stop the flow of natural gas into the pipeline but they couldn’t reach the manual valve. The gas wasn't shut off for 90 minutes. San Bruno Assemblyman Jerry ...

State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week’s San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged ...

Most Californians live with the thought that the next big earthquake could be just around the corner. Some are ready for it, and some are not. But there is one thing that even the most prepared people ...

“A client of mine [says] he rarely hears people complain [about oil pipelines] while wearing a burlap sack and riding a horse,” pipeline integrity consultant Andrew Kendrick noted while discussing the ...

Due to age and corrosion, the main gas shut-off valve in up to 10% of California homes is frozen so tight that the average homeowner cannot move it to the closed position, according to a Public ...