Overgrown PG&E Land Has Auburn Neighbors Worried About Fire Hazards
Weeds and overgrown trees have overwhelmed neighbors terrified of the fire danger too close to home; but, they can't do anything about it because it's PG&E's land.
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Weeds and overgrown trees have overwhelmed neighbors terrified of the fire danger too close to home; but, they can't do anything about it because it's PG&E's land.
A 2-inch plastic gas pipe ruptured Thursday in the same San Francisco suburb where a pipeline explosion killed eight people in 2010, prompting more than a dozen homes to be briefly evacuated.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says more than 200 of its gas pipelines are in danger of a failure similar to the deadly 2010 explosion in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.
Investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a massive fire at a commercial laundry plant that has left at least 20 people without a place to work.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has exceeded the designated maximum pressure on its natural gas pipelines more than 120 times since the 2010 deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is alerting customers to be aware of a scam that has impacted other utility customers across the country.
A new green manufacturing plant is bringing about 150 new jobs to Dixon, building trucks with battery-operated bucket lifts.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wants to avoid paying punitive damages to survivors of the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion, saying the blast was an accident rather than the result of mismanagement.
California's largest utility and two tree-trimming subcontractors have agreed to pay nearly $30 million to settle federal lawsuits over the cause of wildfires in two national forests.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has agreed to pay $70 million in restitution for the California pipeline explosion that killed eight people in 2010.
PG&E can start charging its customers fees of up to $10 per month if they don't want to have wireless "smart meters" installed in their homes, according to a decision Wednesday by California regulators.
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.
Residents have fought and won in their push for new pipes in a Davis community. At issue are leaky gas lines running through the Stonegate neighborhood.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will pay a record $38 million fine for a series of safety violations that led to a fatal natural gas explosion in a Sacramento suburb on Christmas Eve 2008.
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 and shutting down parts of the freeway for several hours, authorities said.
Manteca Police raided a sophisticated marijuana operation inside a home on Thursday, seizing plants with a street value of more than $2 million, the department said.
Two Pacific Gas & Electric workers drowned when the work truck they were in went off the highway and into the Feather River on Thursday.
Two PG&E linesmen died Thursday night when their truck plunged into a reservoir, authorities said.
Work is scheduled to begin Wednesday night on replacing more than 400 feet of gas pipeline under Cirby Way near Riverside Avenue that leaked and started a fire last month in Roseville, according to PG&E.
A federal safety panel unanimously concluded Tuesday that a series of actions by one of the nation's largest gas companies caused a gas explosion last year that killed eight people and incinerated a suburban neighborhood near San Francisco.
PG&E Corp.'s earnings climbed 9 percent in the second quarter, as a revenue boost from two rate case settlements offset costs related to last year's San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. crews were expected to resume work this week in digging up an abandoned segment of natural gas pipeline that was once part of the line that exploded in San Bruno last year.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has started digging up an abandoned segment of pipe that was once part of the gas line that exploded in San Bruno last year.
A California utility company says a court filing in response to lawsuits over the fatal San Bruno pipeline explosion was not intended to hold victims at fault in any way for the blast.
