UPDATE 1-Regulators scrap plan to burn off leaking methane in California
January 20, 2016 at 22:14 PM EST
LOS ANGELES, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Air quality regulators agreed on Wednesday to scrap a proposal to capture and burn off some of the methane spewing into the air from a subterranean pipeline rupture that has forced thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes since October.