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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). [2] The company is headquartered at 300 Lakeside Drive, in Oakland, California.PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County, almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines.
Erin Brockovich. Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.
Pacific Gas & Electric was an American rock band in the late 1960s and early 1970s, led by singer Charlie Allen. Their biggest hit was the gospel-tinged " Are You Ready? " in 1970. Music
PG&E has more than 100,000 miles of power lines, but wants to underground a total of 10,000 miles in the areas with highest fire potential. Poppe said covering primary power lines with fire ...
PG&E is a criminal enterprise Please explain why consumers are responsible for the upkeep of modules and gas meters? Every month consumers open their billing statement only to find another rate ...
PG&E may be committed to lowering energy prices, but that’s not the same as actually lowering energy prices. In reality, our bills won’t decrease any time soon, unless we proactively conserve ...
Hinkley groundwater contamination. From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million gallons (1,400 million litres) of chromium -tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles. [1] [2]
The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 miles (3.2 km) west of San Francisco International Airport [4] near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue. [5]