San Francisco's Candlestick Park was in need of, well, candles after two power outages stalled Monday night's football game between the 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Tuesday that it is liable for the San Bruno, California, pipeline rupture, which killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes in September 2010, and will compensate the victims.
Warren Buffett's utility company is making a big buy in the turmoil-filled solar energy market.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company must pay $38 million for safety violations in connection with a Christmas Eve 2008 explosion and fire in northern California, officials said.
Pacific Gas and Electric, the utility company at the center of a long standing water contamination problem in this small agricultural town, is trying to soothe growing unease by offering to buy homes located near a chemical plume
The citizens of Brinkley, California, made famous by a Julia Roberts movie, are still plagued with toxic pollution.
California lawmakers approved a measure Friday that will allow victims of the San Bruno gas pipe explosion to take advantage of a $7,000 property tax exemption, according to a statement from Assemblyman Jerry Hill.
An eighth victim of the September 9 natural gas explosion and fire in San Bruno, California, has died, according to San Mateo County Coroner Robert J. Foucralt.
A vintage segment of gas pipeline that exploded earlier this month was not on a list of the Pacific Gas & Electric's top 100 risky pipeline segments, the president of the company said Monday.
A consumer advocacy group accuses PG and E of failing to fix a section of the pipeline that exploded.
California utility Pacific Gas and Electric will set aside up to $100 million to help rebuild parts of the San Francisco suburb ravaged by a deadly gas explosion last week, the company's president said Monday.
CNN iReporters share footage of the moments after the natural-gas line explosion and fire in San Bruno, California.
California Sen. Barbara Boxer demanded answers Saturday to questions about why a gas transmission line ruptured in a suburban San Francisco town, triggering a massive fire that killed four people and left five people missing.
Firefighters have fully contained a massive gas-fueled blaze in California that killed four people, while search efforts and attempts to determine the cause of the fire were still under way on Friday.
Trading was choppy and light Friday, with stocks barely ending the week higher as investors wavered between mildly upbeat data and ongoing fears about a slowing economy.
A Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman discusses the company's response to the San Pedro gas explosion.
Shares of Pacific Gas & Electric tumbled 6% Friday after a gas pipeline in California exploded and erupted into flames.
One year after Wal-Mart launched an ambitious plan to help its suppliers track their energy and materials use and carbon emissions, the effort has officially become a trend among corporate multinationals.
Unsecured creditors of Lehman Brothers may have choked last week when Harvey Miller, the lead attorney on the bank's bankruptcy, told Congress that the final bill to unwind its sprawling claims would likely hit $2 billion and take two more years to settle. He also said some of those creditors might only collect twenty cents on the dollar for approved claims.
All three people on board a twin-engine plane died Wednesday when their aircraft crashed into a residential East Palo Alto, California, neighborhood, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration said.
A small, twin-engine Cessna crashed into a neighborhood in East Palo Alto, California
Officials had power fully restored Sunday afternoon after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake off the northern California coast Saturday left thousands without electricity.
Gary Bird of the Eureka Fire Department says the city is bracing for aftershocks after a 6.5 quake rocked off northern California.
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck off the shore of Northern California, leaving thousands of households without power.
The only way utility companies will move toward a "smart grid" model is if they are allowed to charge more money to deliver less power.
Resolutions tend to be goals like quitting smoking, running some knee-crushing marathon, or writing that long-delayed memoir or mystery novel, all noble if daunting propositions. But resolutions don't have to be just about you, pal. How about thinking about doing good for others, namely this pretty blue planet you've been sponging off of for so long?
Business 2.0: Green powerupdated: Tue Sep 25 2007 21:59:00
A 22-foot-long, neon-green banner hangs from the high-ceilinged lobby of the San Francisco headquarters of Pacific Gas & Electric, California's largest utility. "GREEN IS resisting the urge to drive to yoga," it declares. "GREEN IS saying no thanks to the daily disposable coffee cup."
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