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PG&E, a ‘killer company,’ admits to 85 felony counts. Now what?

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. tried to avoid the stain of a criminal conviction over its geriatric power line that sparked California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire. Last year, attorneys

PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter over Camp fire

In a federal filing Monday permanently documenting its role in causing California’s deadliest wildfire, Pacific Gas & Electric announced it has pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for

PG&E Will Plead Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter in Camp Fire

The California utility faced felony charges in connection with a 2018 wildfire that killed more than 80 people. Pacific Gas & Electric, California’s largest utility, said Monday that it had

PG&E Alerted To Risk of Worn Hooks Back in 1987

PG&E was alerted more than 30 years before the deadly Camp fire about the failure risk of worn steel hooks like the one that snapped and caused the most destructive

The California power outages show how dire the wildfire crisis has gotten — 9 of the state’s 10 biggest fires came in the last 16 years

The fire has spread quickly due to strong easterly winds, sometimes called the Santa Ana winds . The flames have burned more than 4,700 acres, at a rate of 800

PG&E CEO asks lawmakers to approve $20 billion debt plan

PG&E Corp. CEO Bill Johnson personally urged state lawmakers Wednesday to let the company take on billions of dollars in new debt to help pay victims of catastrophic wildfires caused

California’s largest utility warns tens of thousands of people could see power shut off due to extreme fire risk

Pacific Gas & Electric Co., California’s largest electric utility, warned Friday afternoon it might cut power this weekend to tens of thousands of customers in its service area due

PG&E’s Probation Sentence: Judge Orders Board of Directors to Visit Paradise, San Bruno

U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, who has repeatedly excoriated PG&E for not doing enough to prevent wildfires, struck a concerned but conciliatory note Tuesday in passing sentence against the

Dividends and Disaster: How For-Profit Utilities Threaten Public Safety

In the early morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, the first sparks of what would become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history ignited in a wooded area

PG&E Emails Show Apparent Prior Warnings About Transmission Line That Likely Started the Camp Fire

Documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit indicate PG&E was aware of safety questions on a critical transmission line years before the line likely started the deadly Camp Fire

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