PG&E Doubles Estimated Cost Of San Bruno Blast
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s parent company said costs related to September's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno will be twice as high as the company previously expected.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s parent company said costs related to September's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno will be twice as high as the company previously expected.
The Bay Area began to dry out Wednesday morning after a night of wind and rain that left thousands of people without power.
PG&E crews have capped a natural gas leak that prompted a shelter-in-place warning Monday morning for two San Francisco schools in the city's Outer Mission neighborhood.
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.
PG&E put off inspecting its lines for years and used less thorough inspection techniques than its own safety guidelines recommended, according to state audits.
Two Marin County mothers who were arrested for trying to prevent PG&E crews from installing SmartMeters, have received a warning from the district attorney's office, but the women say they are not willing to drop the issue.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Pacific Gas and Electric was even boosting an East Bay pipeline considered "at a high likelihood for failure."
Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier said PG&E ratepayers should not have to foot the bill for testing of the utility's pipelines.
An Associated Press investigation has found that damage from a California pipeline explosion could have been reduced if the line had been equipped with a type of shut-off valve federal safety investigators have recommended for decades.
The City of Oakland plans to reach out to more than 4,000 downtown businesses in an effort to promote the use of energy-efficient lighting and other conservation measures.
PG&E received orders on Wednesday to reduce pressure on four of its natural gas transmission lines, which investigators discovered were running above maximum pressure levels in the Bay Area and Central Valley, according to officials.
Pacific Gas and Electric has released the results of its accelerated leak survey of its transmission pipelines, which showed that it has found and repaired 59 leaks on gas pipelines.
PG&E announced Tuesday that it would share specific information about its natural gas pipeline infrastructure with fire departments in San Francisco and Fremont to protect first responders in the event of a gas-related fire.
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.
The parents of a woman who was killed in the San Bruno gas line explosion in September filed a wrongful death lawsuit against PG&E in San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday.
UPDATE: A woman who was killed in a crash in Orinda on Tuesday while fleeing from police in a stolen pickup truck has been identified as a 27-year-old Hayward resident.
Consumer groups and some local officials are calling for a formal state investigation of last September's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
More than 800,000 live in San Francisco, with many more filling up office buildings everyday to work. Gregg Rosenblum asked this Good Question: How much electricity does the entire city of San Francisco use in a day?
Firefighters and utility crews responded to a gas line rupture at a San Jose apartment complex Monday afternoon.
Firefighters and PG&E crews were on the scene of a gas leak caused by a hit-and-run car crash in San Jose that prompted the evacuation of neighboring homes in the area, a fire captain said.
Federal investigators probing the cause of a deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno have found multiple defects and cracks in welds that held together segments of the pipe.
A Peninsula state assemblyman is calling on PG&E to quickly tell the public the location of 10 gas pipelines where it has spiked pressure to their legal limits. That's because a similar amount of pressure had been spiked twice on a line in San Bruno before it exploded in September.
