Residents still waiting for full results of Aliso Canyon disaster health study a decade later

In the immediate aftermath of the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas blowout – the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history – residents in the San Fernando Valley demanded to know exactly what toxins or other chemicals they had been exposed to and what that would mean for their health.

For those residents, it’s been a long and hard fought battle to get answers.

Last month, just weeks shy of the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic event at the Southern California Gas Co.-owned facility, a team of UCLA researchers who had been tapped by Los Angeles County to conduct a health study finally published their first set of findings in a science journal.

Their conclusion: pregnant women living near the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage facility during the blowout were more likely to give birt