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Pacific Gas in California Set to Face Jury over Pipeline Blast

One of the country’s largest utility companies is set to face a jury in a criminal trial accusing it of obstructing investigators in the wake of a deadly pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area. The September 2010 blast …

California Regulators Order PG&E to Pay $1.6B for Deadly Gas Blast

California regulators imposed the largest penalty in the agency’s history, ordering PG&E Corp. to pay $1.6 billion for failures that led to a deadly 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb. A faulty weld on the pipeline …

PG&E: Progress On Safety Recommendations at California Plant

More than two and a half years after a pipeline explosion killed eight people in a San Francisco suburb, a Northern California utility said Tuesday it has made sure that all of its gas transmission lines coursing through urban areas …

Federal Agency Calls for Pipeline Safety Reforms

The nation needs new solutions to improve the safety of natural gas pipelines coursing beneath neighborhoods, federal investigators said last week as a three-day hearing on last year’s deadly blast in a San Francisco suburb drew to a close. Dozens …