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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gas feeding the flames devouring a San Bruno neighborhood could have been shut off an hour sooner if PG&E had automatic or remotely controlled shutoff valves on the pipeline that ...

The committee will study current and potential methodologies and standards, including regulatory criteria, for deciding when an automatic shutoff valve, remote controlled valve or other equivalent ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday it intends to replace hundreds of manually operated valves on natural gas pipelines with automatic shutoffs, devices that the utility concedes would have ...

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 ...

Federal investigators and state legislators are zeroing in on whether inferior shut-off valves on the natural gas pipeline that exploded last week in San Bruno led to a deadlier, costlier disaster.

WASHINGTON — Gas feeding the flames devouring a San Bruno neighborhood could have been shut off at least an hour earlier, but PG&E had decided in 2006 that adding automatic or remotely controlled shut ...