PG&E

A new California poll shows the Golden State loves Pelosi. Newsom settles a bet and spotlights housing. CA's new online college gets a tech CEO.

A GOP mayor embraces refugees in CA, Gabby Giffords wants CA to triple gun control spending, pulling the plug in fire weather and Westlands' man at Interior.

Sen. Bill Dodd wants to establish a California wildfire warning center that would allow officials to turn off power and better position firefighting crews during extreme heat and high winds.

James Ferguson, San Diego Guest commentator Tom Dalzell illustrates well the acute conditions we confront with climate change and the need for state and utility company action. However, speaking as past co-chair of public policy for a Southern California climate group, I found International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hard to get for meaningful support. IBEW is […]

PG&E has violated its San Bruno probation. California's chief utility regulator issues a grim warning. And Trump jumps for GOP pundits on CA judges.

Revisiting lethal force, the death penalty and humane treatment of inmates. LAUSD trusts in state funding. Soda lobbyists. PG&E lets the bankruptcy begin.

PG&E closes in on bankruptcy, fire data hints at tougher utility regulation and losses in November's fires alone cost more than the U.S. govermmen shutdown.

As a publicly traded corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric reported $17.1 billion a year in revenues from its electric and gas operations. After operating costs, expenses and taxes, it still made out with a profit of $1.7 billion last year. So why has California’s largest utility filed for bankruptcy? PG&E may be solvent, but it is facing […]

PG&E is cleared of one big fire, but stil on the hook for so many others. Wall Street speaks. Another California Republican bails on the the GOP.

Mention Pacific Gas & Electric to Victor Porter, and the response is nothing like the bland non-opinion most Americans have of the companies that provide their electricity. “They have to pay,” said Porter, a 64-year-old artist who fled for his life with his partner and their dog when the towering Camp Fire swept down on […]