Pacific Gas and Electric News

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. broke ground Friday on its expanded facility and new six-story parking garage at the San Rafael Corporate Center on Lindaro Street in downtown San Rafael.

The superseding criminal indictment of Pacific Gas & Electric Company for obstruction of an agency investigation and violations of the Pipeline Safety Act in connection with PG&E's role in the 2010 pipeline explosion is a continued source of headline risk and uncertainty for PG&E from a credit point of view.

MONTEREY >> Save Our Shores and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. teamed up this week for the largest corporate beach cleanup in the history of the ocean conservation organization.

The firm citied valuation, structural improvements that have taken hold, and the belief the company will be able to put the San Bruno pipeline explosion behind it, as its reasons for the upgrade.

The fire caused by a pipeline blast rips through a San Bruno neighborhood in 2010.

The crash, just after 12:30 p.m. on Tiburon Boulevard between Lyford Drive and Mar West Street, temporarily stalled traffic in both directions, police officials said.

We're going to lead with General Motors here. GM is one of eight automakers working with 15 utilities and the Electric Power Research Institute at developing a "smart" plug-in vehicle charging system.

PG&E shares plunged on Thursday, amid a slump in profits that were weakened by expenses related to improvements to its natural gas system, under scrutiny following a fatal explosion in San Bruno nearly four years ago.

The San Francisco company's net income after preferred dividends fell to $267 million, or 57 cents per share, for the three months ended June 30. That's down from $328 million, or 74 cents per share, a year ago.

PG&E CORP FILES Disclosing Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition The information included in this Current Report on Form 8-K is being furnished, not filed, pursuant to Item 2.02 of Form 8-K.

Review the plan: For a detailed status update on the Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project, go to www.usbr.gov/mp/battlecreek/status.html .

We've all heard the warnings: the "e" in email stands for evidence. Never put anything into email that you expect to remain private.

Just hours after PG&E was indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges, among them obstruction of justice, the agency released a statement calling the charges "unwarranted."

Just hours after PG&E was indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges, among them obstruction of justice, the agency released a statement calling the charges "unwarranted."

HINKLEY >> Pacific Gas & Electric Co. officials have notified residents here that their programs to provide bottled water for some and a sophisticated water filtration system to others would end Oct. 31. In its letter mailed Wednesday, San Francisco-based utility giant PG&E noted that levels of chromium-6 in Hinkley's domestic wells were below ... (more)

Fire crews gained ground on big blazes in Yosemite National Park and in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Sacramento.

A gas leak impacted traffic in the area of Center Parkway and Cosumnes River Boulevard Wednesday.

It's "Wednesday's Child is Full of Whoa! Wednesdays" on The After Show. We were going to call it "Germanic Mercury" but you know what they say, if you have to explain a joke, yada yada ya.

A federal grand jury charged Pacific Gas & Electric on Tuesday with lying to federal investigators in connection with a fatal pipeline explosion that killed eight people and levelled a suburban Northern California neighbourhood in 2010.

PG&E Co. was charged in a revised grand jury indictment in San Francisco today with a new criminal count of obstructing justice in a probe of a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010, U.S. prosecutors announced this evening.