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A California utility under fire for a deadly pipeline explosion has revealed that its employees dispute key information the company gave federal investigators about past problems on the gas line that ruptured.
A gas main break in Carmichael that lasted for more than 12 hours was finally capped on Friday morning.
A high-level, independent probing last year's deadly California pipeline explosion says urgent reforms are needed to fix ongoing problems at the pipeline company and inside a state utility commission.
Nearly nine months after federal investigators began probing a deadly pipeline explosion near San Francisco, a California utility quietly revealed its ruptured line had sprung a leak in a nearby spot years before, a top safety official said.
For the first time, we're getting a look at the canal breach that is forcing thousands of people in Placer County to conserve their water, and PG&E says it could be June before they fix the problem.
The damage may be far from over following a massive canal break in Placer County.
Some Pacific Gas and Electric Co. SmartMeters can overcharge customers when they become too hot.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. records show California regulators questioned the utility about its record-keeping practices several years before the San Bruno pipeline explosion, when they found the company was writing key documents in erasable ink.
Federal prosecutors are seeking thousands of pages of documents from California regulators as they launch an investigation into a deadly gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb.
A natural gas leak in South Sacramento could result in a major road being closed for hours.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is proposing to allow residents to switch off the wireless signals on their utility meters for a fee, but opponents of the devices aren't satisfied.
Recently released documents from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. reveal what could be another construction problem along the transmission line running beneath a San Francisco suburb where a deadly natural gas explosion occurred.
A California utility under fire for a deadly natural gas explosion near San Francisco is missing 8 percent of key safety records required for high-pressure lines running through the state's most densely populated areas, the company said Tuesday after an exhaustive document search.
New call logs from a California pipeline explosion that killed eight people show that utility crews were scrambling to stop gas pressure surges and feared they would cause a "major, major problem."
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Saturday a concert venue was being used by employees searching through tens of thousands of boxes of paper records on its natural gas pipeline system.
Until a deadly explosion south of San Francisco last year, local firefighters had no idea there was a large gas transmission pipeline underneath their town -- a recurring problem in pipeline accidents, federal safety officials said Wednesday.
Officials for a California gas company involved in a deadly pipeline accident last September acknowledged Tuesday that four years before the accident they rejected installing valves that could have automatically shut off or remotely controlled the flow of gas.
A gas leak has forced the evacuation of an assisted living facility in the Calaveras County town of San Andreas.
A newspaper is reporting that federal regulators say temporarily increasing the pressure beyond legal limits on natural gas lines, as Pacific Gas and Electric Co., has acknowledged it did on the pipeline that exploded in San Bruno last fall, violates federal regulations.
A newspaper is reporting that a move nearly two decades ago by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to computerize its records may have led to the company losing crucial information about its pipeline system.
The California utility under fire following a huge natural gas pipeline explosion put off inspecting its lines for years and used less thorough inspection techniques than its own safety guidelines recommended, according to state audits released Wednesday.
California regulators have ordered Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to reduce pressure on four gas pipelines running through sensitive areas.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board says California utility record-keeping blunders leading up to the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion demonstrates a need for stepped up industry safety.
The parents of a 20-year-old woman who was one of eight people killed in a Northern California gas line explosion are suing the pipe's owner for negligence and wrongful death.
