Consumer Watchdog Seeks Ethics Review Of Top Aide To Gov. Jerry Brown
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog said Monday that it has asked the Fair Political Practices Commission to investigate whether Nancy McFadden had a conflict of interest.
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The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog said Monday that it has asked the Fair Political Practices Commission to investigate whether Nancy McFadden had a conflict of interest.
Hundreds of people were without power in the Bay Area Sunday afternoon, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Tens of thousands of PG&E customers were in the dark Saturday. Crews spent the day restoring power to customers across the Bay Area.
Tens of thousands of PG&E customers have gotten a reprieve from a looming deadline to choose a rate plan that will determine how much they'll pay for electricity.
The San Francisco Bay Area is replete with savvy energy options with numerous benefits that look to reduce costs for home and business owners.
A gas leak near San Francisco General Hospital Wednesday morning prompted brief evacuations.
A downed tree is blocking a road in Mill Valley and has caused a power outage leaving 210 residences without power Tuesday morning.
PG&E is working to restore gas Monday to thousands customers who lost service in the Discovery Bay area of unincorporated Contra Costa County on Sunday, according to the utility.
A federal judge in San Francisco has reduced the maximum possible fine that PG&E faces in a criminal case over the deadly San Bruno blast in 2010.
Crews have restored power to about 20,200 PG&E customers in the Bay Area affected by the rainstorm Wednesday night and earlier on Thursday.
Facing increasing concerns over earthquakes, a boom in alternative energy production and a tough regulatory environment, PG&E may let its license to operate California's last nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon expire in 2025.
California lawmakers focused Wednesday on power lines as a cause of devastating wildfires, possibly including a blaze this summer that killed two people and damaged or destroyed 965 structures in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Firefighters are waiting for PG&E crews to arrive at the scene of a gas line on fire near a commercial structure in San Jose Sunday afternoon.
Wet weather caused several power outages Monday morning throughout the Bay Area, according to PG&E.
According to published media reports, the Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for infrastructure protection told an energy conference in Philadephia, "…there's some indication it was an insider."
PG&E is trying to figure what caused a transformer to explode in San Francisco injuring 2 people.
When the Valley Fire ripped through Middletown Saturday night, Cody Smith and his family came terrifyingly close to the fire. They were trapped on their own property, surrounded by a wall of flames.
Five years after the San Bruno pipeline disaster, the city's Crestmoor neighborhood is rebuilding, Mayor Jim Ruane said Wednesday.
PG&E has filed a barrage of motions in federal court in San Francisco, seeking dismissal of all of the 28 criminal charges it faces for alleged obstruction of justice and pipeline safety violations.
Highway 101 in Burlingame was closed in both directions until about 4:30 p.m. Saturday for emergency repairs causing a traffic nightmare. Now it's slated for closure again on Sunday.
The CHP reopened all southbound lanes and three lanes of northbound 101 in Burlingame Saturday afternoon following a lengthy closure due to downed power lines.
PG&E crews were working to repair a ruptured 4-inch gas line that prompted evacuations in San Francisco's Lake Street neighborhood Monday.
A bill in the California Legislature would prohibit the state's largest utility from claiming tax deductions for a $1.6 billion penalty stemming from a deadly 2010 natural gas explosion.
More than one-tenth of a threatened population of California Central Valley salmon has perished after a utility diverted some water from their creek.
