Big Methane Leak Causes State Of Emergency The Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles is officially in a state of emergency, according to a declaration by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. The area has been suffering from the effects of a methane gas leak at the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility since late October. At

By: Tim Sandler and Stephanie Gosk, NBC News Originally published on December 31, 2015 A company that made a blood-clot filter associated with 27 deaths and hundreds of problems replaced the device with a modified version that it knew had similar and potentially fatal flaws soon after it was put on the market. Confidential company

By Arthur Bryant, Chairman. Source: Public Justice. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform just released the latest version of the propaganda piece it started publishing in 2002. Entitled 2015 Lawsuit Climate Survey: Ranking the States, the report summarizes the answers of a “nationally representative sample of 1,203 in-house general counsel, senior litigators or

The $900 million General Motors agreed on Thursday to pay the government for concealing a deadly ignition switch from regulators is a lot of money — nearly one-third of GM’s earnings last year — though hardly an existential threat to the company. Indeed, GM stock was up 11 cents to$31.31 a share on the news. But the

By: Patrick G. Lee, Source. U.S. highway guardrail systems made by Trinity Industries Inc. and Road Systems Inc. have “safety performance issues” in some real-world crash scenarios, the Federal Highway Administration said as it urged a national overhaul of standards to better protect American drivers. The regulator Friday released a report citing “performance limitations” of

By: David Gelles, Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew Dolansept, Source: The New York Times. Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology. There were the obvious features, like a roadside assistance service that communicates to a satellite. But Dr. Patel, a computer science