SF News PG&E About to Finish Criminal Probation for San Bruno Explosion, Judge Says They're Still a ‘Menace to California’ During its five years of criminal probation, PG&E has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires, destroying 23,000 homes, and killing 113 Californians, raising questions about the effectiveness of corporate probation.
SF News Why Is PG&E Buying Multi-Million Dollar Marina Homes And Digging Up Their Yards? Some strange dirt on PG&E dug up by the Chronicle: For the last four years, the utility has been buying out multi-million dollar homes in the Marina to remove chemical contamination
SF News Now PG&E Wants Its Conviction Thrown Out In San Bruno Blast Case As most of you know, in September of 2010, an explosion rocked San Bruno, killing eight people, injuring 58 more, and destroying 38 homes in the process. On August 9, 2016, a jury
SF News PG&E Fined Only $3 Million In San Bruno Criminal Case, Convicted On 6 of 12 Charges In the case of a devastating explosion that killed eight people, injured 58 others, and destroyed 38 homes in a San Bruno neighborhood six years ago, utility company PG&E has been
SF News PG&E Trial Closes With Prosecutor Saying The Utility Had 'Lost Its Way' Testimony in the federal criminal trial against PG&E concluded Wednesday, and the prosecutor in the case didn't go out without some scathing rebukes of the company's mismanagement and greed that led
SF News PG&E Put Safety Literally Last On Its List Of Priorities, Documents Show Leading up to the deadly 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people, injured dozens more, and destroyed 38 homes, Pacific Gas & Electric kept a list of priorities. The very literal
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
SF News PG&E's Criminal Trial Over Deadly San Bruno Explosion Begins In Two Weeks We had some warning last month, and now KRON 4 brings a reminder that, nearly six years on, PG&E is about to finally face criminal charges over the infamous San Bruno
SF News Day Around The Bay: PG&E Finally Going On Trial For The 2010 San Bruno Blast [Fortune Magazine] (once again) says Google is the best place to work in the US. Here's some video of yet another sinkhole in Pacifica, this one on Beach Boulevard. [KRON 4] The giant,
SF News PG&E Wants To Double Fees For Customers Who Go Green Everyone's favorite energy company soon to be on trial for charges relating to the 2010 deadly San Bruno blast, Pacific Gas & Electric, has quietly launched a new campaign to piss off Bay
SF News KTVU Makes Another Unfortunate Error Calling San Bruno 'San Burno' Does everybody remember the infamous on-air gaffe in which a KTVU anchor read a series of offensive joke names she thought were actual Asiana Airlines pilots, in the wake of the 2013 crash
SF News PG&E Gas Line Explodes Near Fresno, At Least 14 Injured A photo posted by Alan-Michael (@81vlvnmvc) on Apr 17, 2015 at 2:29pm PDT An explosion near Fresno at about 2:30 p.m. halted north and south traffic on Highway 99, KCRA
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 Day Around the Bay: Murdoch Takes Stab At Google Crazy old man Rupert Murdoch takes stab at Google privacy concerns in one of the greatest pot-kettle-black moments of recent Twitter history. [SF Business Times] Michael Bauer is already contemplating additions to next
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
SF News PG&E Has Valve Shutoff Problem Again in Last Night's Four-Alarm Portola Blaze Yet again, PG&E is being blamed by firefighters for taking way too long to shut off a gas main during a four-alarm fire at a construction site yesterday afternoon. Two hours
SF News PG&E Trying To Get Out Of Paying Fine For Deadly San Bruno Disaster Get this: PG&E actually had the balls to ask the state this week if they wouldn't please be so kind as to offset the fine they're expected to be on the
SF News PG&E Finally Admits Liability In San Bruno Blast Fifteen months after a high-pressure gas line explosion killed eight people and decimated a neighborhood in San Bruno, PG&E may finally be willing admit they might have done something wrong. It's
SF News Rand Paul Doesn't Care For Pipeline Safety Bill Rand Paul, Republican Senator from Kentucky and son of Ron, is taking a stand against the Senate's pipeline safety bill that would strengthen federal safety regulations in the wake of the deadly PG&
SF News PG&E Gets Slapped Up the Side of the Head By Feds for San Bruno Blast The results of the federal probe into the San Bruno gas line explosion of last September were finally presented yesterday, and the NTSB has placed all the blame for the tragedy on PG&
SF News They're Getting Pretty Sick of Smelling Gas In San Bruno An image from the tragic disaster of September 9, 2010. "I'm sick and tired of this being scared all the time," says San Bruno resident Janel Costanzo, after an incident Saturday in which
SF News 'Routine Maintenance' on Gas Pipelines in Potrero Causes Anxiety Some Potrero residents became alarmed recently seeing a bunch of PG&E maintenance signs go up near 17th and Missouri, with parking prohibited along a whole side of the street starting last
SF News Gas Pipeline Under San Bruno Was News to Fire Chief At the NTSB hearing in Washington today at which PG&E is having to answer for what went down in San Bruno on September 9, 2010, San Bruno fire chief Dennis Haag
SF News Natural Gas Explosion in PA Damages More Than 20 Homes A very similar-seeming explosion to the one in San Bruno has occurred in Allentown, Pennsylvania, quickly leveling two homes and destroying six more in the resulting inferno. The explosion occurred just after 11
SF News PG&E Scrambling Around The Clock To Figure Out Their Pipeline Paperwork You know PG&E is pretty much being blamed for killing those people in the September 9 San Bruno inferno and not really knowing what kind of pipes they even had underground