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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015, file pool photo, crews work on a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles. In trying to reassure the public there's no long-term health risk from the leak, Southern California Gas Co. has said in news releases and FAQs on its website that since the crisis began, just two air samples briefly showed elevated concentrations of the substance. But a closer look at the online data by The Associated Press and outside experts actually shows that a dozen samples from the Porter Ranch community contained at least twice the amount of benzene that Southern California air regulators consider the normal background level. (Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File) (AP)

Charges filed over gas leak

Sophia Tesfaye
(AP/Dean Musgrove)

An atmospheric catastrophe

Thom Hartmann - Alternet
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