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PG&E Customers Can Find Out If Rolling Blackouts Will Affect Their House

August 18, 2020

Congratulations, Fresno and Clovis. Pacific Gas & Electric officials rolled out a mission Monday — conserve energy to avoid rolling blackouts — and residents throughout the utility's service area carried it out. Now, the question is: Will residents s...

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Blackouts & Record Temps: 112 in Fresno, 130 in Death Valley

Bill McEwen

August 17, 2020

Heat records fell throughout the Valley on Sunday as a relentless heatwave baked California and sapped the state's power supply. But Fresno's record high of 112 degrees for Aug. 16 — which bettered the mark ...

Families of California Wildfire Victims Slam PG&E for Crimes

AP News

June 17, 2020

The families of some of the 85 people killed by a horrific Northern California wildfire ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric's long-neglected equipment vilified the company Wednesday as greedy, corrupt and rec...

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PG&E to Plead Guilty to Deaths From California Wildfire

AP News

June 16, 2020

SAN RAMON — Pacific Gas & Electric is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter during a court hearing in which the nation's largest utility will be confronted with its history of neglect and greed that culminated in ...

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Regulators Waive $200M Fine on PG&E for Causing Deadly Fires

AP News

May 7, 2020

BERKELEY — State regulators on Thursday suspended a $200 million fine against Pacific Gas & Electric as punishment for the utility's neglect of electrical equipment that ignited a series of deadly wildfires...

PG&E’s Top Exec Leaving Beleaguered Utility After 14 Months

AP News

April 22, 2020

BERKELEY — PG&E Corp. CEO Bill Johnson will step down from his job just 14 months after the nation's largest utility hired him to rescue it from a financial mess caused by a history of negligence and to cha...

Walters: PG&E Makes Two Deals to Survive

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

March 30, 2020

In any other week, major actions affecting Pacific Gas and Electric’s chances of emerging from bankruptcy as an intact and operational utility would have been big news. But with everyone in and out of government riveted on battling the COVID-19 pandemic, th...

PG&E’s Falling Stock Price Worries Fire Victims Eyeing Deal

AP News

March 26, 2020

BERKELEY — The stock market turmoil triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is raising worries that Pacific Gas & Electric's $13.5 billion settlement with victims of catastrophic wildfires may be worth far le...

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PG&E to Plead Guilty to Lethal Crimes in 2018 Wildfires

AP News

March 24, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for a swath of death and destruction left behind after its fraying electrical grid ignited the 2018 wildfire...

PG&E Pleading Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter in Wildfire

AP News

March 23, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric said Monday it will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2018 fire in Northern California that killed 84 people and decimated three towns. "Our equipment started the fire. Th...

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PG&E Customers Can Find Out If Rolling Blackouts Will Affect Their House

Blackouts & Record Temps: 112 in Fresno, 130 in Death Valley

Families of California Wildfire Victims Slam PG&E for Crimes

PG&E to Plead Guilty to Deaths From California Wildfire

Regulators Waive $200M Fine on PG&E for Causing Deadly Fires

PG&E’s Top Exec Leaving Beleaguered Utility After 14 Months

Walters: PG&E Makes Two Deals to Survive

PG&E’s Falling Stock Price Worries Fire Victims Eyeing Deal

PG&E to Plead Guilty to Lethal Crimes in 2018 Wildfires

PG&E Pleading Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter in Wildfire

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