PG&E Corp., owner of California’s largest utility, said it will settle “substantially all” remaining personal injury and property damage claims from a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people. The utility announced the agreement today in a regulatory …
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not use $50 million it collected from ratepayers that was meant to improve its gas pipeline network in the decade leading to a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay area suburb, an audit …
More than two years after a gas pipeline explosion killed eight people in a San Francisco suburb, a California utility says it has finished implementing seven of federal investigators’ 12 recommendations to fix its network. A Pacific Gas & Electric …
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said it has fired or suspended nearly 20 workers after discovering legally required inspections may not have been performed. The situation prompted PG&E to check more than 1,500 pieces of underground electrical equipment for possible …
The city of San Bruno, Calif., said Wednesday that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has broken off settlement talks with the city about a compensation fund for a deadly gas pipeline explosion. Officials in the San Francisco suburb want the …
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. officials acknowledge the company wrongly classified hundreds of miles of natural gas transmission lines – the same type of line that ruptured in the deadly San Bruno explosion. In a document filed Tuesday with the …
PG&E Corp. has agreed to pay a $38 million fine for a 2008 gas pipe explosion that killed a Rancho Cordova homeowner. It’s the largest safety-related fine ever levied by the California Public Utilities Commission. PG&E and state regulators initially …
A 2-foot-wide section of pipe burst Sunday during a high-pressure water test along the same Pacific Gas & Electric pipeline in Northern California that had a deadly explosion last year, sending mud, debris and a pipe cover into Interstate 280 …
Two utility workers died after their truck plunged into a reservoir along a Northern California river as they were returning from a job. The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. employees drowned Thursday when their company truck skidded off the road …
A federal safety panel on Tuesday is expected to reveal the results of a yearlong investigation into a natural gas pipeline explosion near San Francisco that killed eight people, incinerated a suburban neighborhood and prompted a national reevaluation of pipeline …