San Bruno Triggers Fed Call To Repair Aging Pipelines
The Obama administration will push legislation designed to overhaul and upgrade America's aging oil and gas pipeline network in response to the deadly San Bruno blast.
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The Obama administration will push legislation designed to overhaul and upgrade America's aging oil and gas pipeline network in response to the deadly San Bruno blast.
Fire crews were on the scene after an explosion caused a fire at an East Bay oil refinery.
Vacaville police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms worked Monday to identify the bomb-maker, but remained tight-lipped about the investigation.
Authorities shut down several streets in San Francisco Monday morning as they responded to an incident involving PG&E equipment, a San Francisco Fire Department dispatcher said.
A Vacaville man was airlifted to a hospital Sunday after explosives that were hidden in his morning paper exploded, a police spokesman said.
Survivors of the San Bruno pipeline explosion gathered near the blast site Wednesday to mark six months since eight people lost their lives and dozens of homes were damaged or completely destroyed in the inferno.
State regulators have threatened Pacific Gas and Electric with fines and sanctions if the utility does not produce records detailing what it knew about the natural gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno last September.
New documents released during a federal hearing on the San Bruno pipeline explosion show a PG&E inspector had concerns about a sewer line project located directly below the ruptured line.
California regulators will consider whether Pacific Gas and Electric Co. should face penalties in connection with its record-keeping in the run-up to the San Bruno pipeline explosion.
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that despite revelations that its records did not provide complete details of its natural gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno last fall, officials at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. say they would not have monitored the pipeline any differently.
A electrical fire burned at a water district pumping station in Walnut Creek Monday, exploding at least one electrical transformer and creating a large plume of fire and smoke.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which is responsible for a gas pipeline that blew up in San Bruno, cannot find key records needed to set safe pressures for nearly a third of its largest transmission lines.
If the utility can't prove that its pipelines are safe, it may need to inspect and possibly even replace hundreds of miles of lines in California.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Pacific Gas & Electric's record-keeping blunders leading up to the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion demonstrates a need for stepped up industry safety.
Consumer advocates hope the two newly appointed members of the California Public Utilities Commission will take a much harder line with Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent disasters such as September's deadly explosion in San Bruno.
Consumer groups and some local officials are calling for a formal state investigation of last September's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
A Peninsula assemblyman criticized the California Public Utilities Commission for allowing safety lapses before the San Bruno explosion that killed 8 people and destroyed dozens of homes.
Nearly four months after a fatal gas pipeline explosion devastated San Bruno, residents are asking city leaders to immediately distribute the donations that flooded in after the disaster.
City officials in San Bruno held a meeting Wednesday night to determine how best to distribute $380,000 in donations made to victims of the Sept. 9 gas pipeline explosion and fire.
A man who suffered extensive burns in a natural gas explosion on Monday night at a duplex in East Oakland is in critical but stable condition at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, a hospital spokeswoman said.
A man was critically burned Monday night in a natural gas explosion at a duplex in East Oakland, a fire battalion chief said.
Under pressure since the deadly San Bruno natural gas explosion, California regulators say they will immediately hire four more pipeline safety inspectors.
The California Public Utilities Commission has released information on all the fines it has levied since 1999.
PG&E President Chris Johns met with state Sen. Leland Yee Friday and discussed moving a pipeline that ruptured and tore through a San Bruno neighborhood on Sept. 9.
San Bruno city leaders, government regulators and PG&E officials were among those expected to participate in the first legislative hearing on the deadly San Bruno explosion and fire.
