January 10, 2019
A California federal judge has told Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to make its power lines safe or shut them off in high winds, saying until the company can show the lines are not a danger during wildfire season, its customers are better off with the lights out.
November 28, 2018
A California federal judge has sent a round of questions to Pacific Gas and Electric Co., asking whether the company, which has been the target of numerous wildfire suits and a criminal case over a deadly 2010 gas line explosion and fire, had anything to do with the Camp Fire in Butte County that has killed nearly 90 people and displaced thousands.
January 23, 2017
A California federal judge announced at a sentencing hearing Monday that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be ordered to pay the maximum $3 million fine for its role in the 2010 San Bruno gas line explosion, but postponed to Thursday a final decision on other sentencing provisions.
January 10, 2017
Federal prosecutors on Monday urged a judge to impose the maximum $3 million criminal fine, along with other penalties, against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. over a deadly 2010 pipeline explosion, but the utility said adopting every recommendation from federal probation officials would unfairly expose it to even greater penalties.
November 18, 2016
A California federal judge refused Friday to overturn the convictions of top energy utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. over a deadly 2010 pipeline explosion, clearing the way for a January sentencing that could include up to $3 million in criminal fines.
September 14, 2016
Federal prosecutors urged a California federal judge on Tuesday not to roll back the criminal conviction of energy utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. over a deadly 2010 gas line explosion, citing the company's retraction of investigation evidence as a display of its bad faith and dismissive view toward pipeline pressure regulations.
August 17, 2016
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. urged a California federal judge on Tuesday to toss a jury verdict reached a week earlier convicting the company of criminal safety violations that led to a deadly gas line explosion in San Bruno.
August 09, 2016
A California federal jury found Pacific Gas & Electric Co. guilty Tuesday of five criminal counts alleging it violated pipeline safety standards leading up to the 2010 San Bruno gas-line explosion and a separate count alleging it obstructed a subsequent federal investigation into the disaster.
August 02, 2016
Federal prosecutors dropped their bid to enhance any potential fine against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. as a jury deliberated Tuesday in a California criminal trial over the deadly 2010 gas line explosion in San Bruno, slashing possible fines against the utility from $562 million to just $6 million.
July 27, 2016
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. delivered its closing defense Wednesday in the six-week federal criminal trial over the deadly 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, telling jurors that the federal government lacks evidence of criminal wrongdoing and based its case on "sound bites and conspiracy theories."