Investigators may have found the source of what led to the largest wildfire in the state so far this year—allegedly, a PG&E power line. A lawsuit is now being filed against the once-bankrupt energy provider. California’s governor signed a bill into law that would provide state identification for illegal immigrants. He says it’s to better […]
SAN FRANCISCO—Pacific Gas & Electric was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes last year, prosecutors said. It is the latest legal action against the nation’s largest utility, which pleaded guilty last year to 84 counts of […]
The nation’s largest utility announced on Tuesday evening that it has begun shutting off power to some 51,000 customers as a large wildfire, fueled by winds, raged through a small Northern California forest town. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in a press release said it made the decision to prevent winds from knocking down or […]
SAN RAMON, Calif.—Pacific Gas & Electric plans to bury 10,000 miles of its power lines in an effort to prevent its fraying grid from sparking wildfires when electrical equipment collides with millions of trees and other vegetation across drought-stricken California. The daunting project announced Wednesday aims to bury about 10 percent of PG&E’s distribution and […]
SACRAMENTO—A California prosecutor filed 33 criminal charges Tuesday accusing troubled Pacific Gas & Electric of inadvertently injuring six firefighters and endangering public health with smoke and ash in a 2019 fire blamed on its equipment. The nation’s largest utility denied that it committed any crimes even as it accepted that its transmission line sparked the […]
A California utility company has begun shutting off power to nearly 53,000 customers as hot, dry, and windy weather threatens to spark yet more fires. Wildfires in California have burned over 4.1 million acres in the state this year and claimed the lives of 31 people, according to Cal Fire. As a response to the […]
PG&E Corp said its Chapter 11 reorganization plan has been confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, bringing the power provider one step closer to emerging from bankruptcy and participate in a state-backed wildfire fund.
Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday was fined $4 million for the deaths of 84 people killed in a nightmarish Northern California wildfire ignited by the its long-neglected electrical grid. The sentencing comes as the nation’s largest utility prepares to end a 17-month bankruptcy proceeding triggered by the catastrophe.
Pacific Gas & Electric pleaded guilty on June 16 to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from a devastating 2018 wildfire in Northern California touched off by the utility company’s power lines.
