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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They should be easy to operate. In order to insure that valves perform up to these expectations, valve manufacturers generally specify or recommend that valves be installed per their instructions. For ...

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 ...

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Watts introduces the IntelliFlow ® automatic washing machine shutoff valve, now with smart and connected capabilities. The Watts IntelliFlow ® uses a state-of-the-art electronic ...

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.