SF News Judge Rules PG&E Can Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in 2020 Zogg Fire PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
SF News Napa and Sonoma To Keep Power On Monday, Still May Lose Power Tuesday PG&E just announced that it will be keeping power flowing to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties today, though as the hot, dry weather is expected to continue tomorrow and Wednesday, they're not totally in the clear.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: PG&E Shares Plummet After Tubbs Fire Decision A woman was fatally struck by a BART train at Powell Sunday night, a registered sex offender chased several women around Santa Rosa, and Sacramento is suing seven homeless people in an unusual case.
SF News A Jury Now Will Decide If PG&E Was Responsible For the Tubbs Fire In wake of PG&E’s long list of financial and judicial woes, the presiding judge of the utility company’s mounting bankruptcy case has, as of yesterday, allowed a state-appointed jury to decide if the electrical company’s equipment was the cause of the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF News PG&E Tells All Customers To Prepare For Multi-Day Blackouts; Sacramento Pushes Back Late summer and fall in parts of Northern California could be eerily silent and dark as PG&E is preparing us for the potential of week-long blackouts to prevent wildfires.
SF News PG&E Denies Everything in Bombshell Journal Exposé, Argues They Were Not Neglectful In Camp Fire The bankrupt utility is on the defensive over safety failures that may have caused the Camp Fire, their lavish political contributions, and their big-bucks shareholder payouts.
SF News Dozens Of Pro-Nuclear Protesters March To Resist Diablo Canyon Closure Over 50 of us including Robert Stone, Gwyn Cravens, Richard Rhodes & me locked down in front of @Greenpeace SF! pic.twitter.com/YyqxOYHi8K— Mike Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June 24, 2016 Approximately 80 protesters
SF News In Triumph For Environmentalists, PG&E Says It Will Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant In 2025 Saying that it was an American Fukushima waiting to happen, environmentalists throughout California and elsewhere have long been putting pressure on Pacific Gas & Electric to fully shut down the Diablo Canyon Power
SF News PG&E's Lawyers Are Now Accusing Federal Prosecutors Of Lying In San Bruno Case This is rich. As PG&E awaits being vilified in front of a jury in the criminal trial pertaining to the infamous 2010 San Bruno cul de sac inferno, their lawyers are
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Citywide Productivity Plummets As SF Peregrine Falcon Cam Goes Live Sure, DC has their eagle-cam or whatever, and while that definitely is cool, they're not the only ones with a livestream of a raptor once almost driven to extinction nesting in their metro
SF News Tesla's New Batteries For Your Home Could Help Us All Say Goodbye To The Power Grid Tesla CEO Elon Musk not-so-quietly unveiled a new product, the Powerwall Tesla Home Battery, last week, that stands to change the way everyone thinks about solar power and sustainable energy. Until now, putting
SF News Fishermen Sue PG&E Over Chemical Contamination Near Wharf by Eric Wuestewald On Tuesday, fifty fisherman and a single Marina property owner filed a formal complaint against PG&E claiming their former refineries had poured some truly nasty stuff into the
SF News PG&E To Be Fined $1.4 Billion By Public Utilities Commission Over San Bruno Blast [Updated] In the largest ever fine to be imposed by California's Public Utilities Commission, PG&E may be slapped with a $1.4 billion fine for the institutional negligence that led up to
SF News San Francisco's Population Boom and How It Impacts You By some estimates, at least 30,000 extra people have moved into San Francisco since 2010. Where are we putting them all? That's still being worked out, clearly. But in the meantime, we
SF News PG&E In Federal Court Today Over San Bruno Disaster The aftermath of the 2010 gas pipe explosion in San Bruno that took the lives of 8 people continues today as PG&E officials appear in federal court this morning to face
