With California’s wildfires growing deadlier and bigger than ever, the state’s largest power company admitted to the largest corporate homicide in American history. PG&E killed 84 people by wh...
PG&E Judge Proposes Stricter Probation After Wildfires
The judge overseeing PG&E Corp.’s criminal probation is looking to tighten the leash on the utility by requiring it to take into account which power lines were cleared of trees before shutting t...
Judge: PG&E blackouts ‘ignored the main problem’ with fire danger
Because the PG&E corporation is a federal offender on probation, it is already facing court action for a wildfire currently under criminal investigation. The Pacific Gas & Electric CompanyR...
Shasta County Father sues PG&E for death of wife and daughter in Zogg Fire, calls for criminal prosecution
The wrongful death suit, filed by Zach McLeod, accuses the company of failing to cut trees for fire safety and failing to switch off the power during the windstorm. A Shasta County man whose wife and ...
PG&E looking into one tree’s possible role in the cause of the Zogg Fire
State fire investigators confiscated parts of a tree near Pacific Gas and Electric Company power lines that may have been set for removal before the Zogg Fire started. A federal judge investigating PG...
More rain headed to Bay Area. Is this the end of wildfire season for Northern California?
After months of tension prompted by a historically destructive wildfire season, officials representing the National Weather Service and Cal Fire concluded a recent meeting on an unusually hopeful note...
Zogg Fire investigation puts PG&E under microscope again
Months after concluding a bankruptcy case arising from its responsibility for numerous wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is facing new scrutiny over yet another devastating blaze. Legal pressure...
PG&E says it could face significant liability due to September Zogg Fire
Dive Brief: Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) could face significant liability and thinks it’s reasonably possible it will face a loss due to the Zogg Fire sparked in late September, whose c...
PG&E noted equipment trouble just minutes before the Zogg Fire started
The first signs fire had broken out on Zogg Mine Road last month came in six minutes after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. began receiving reports of problems in its electrical distribution system in the...
The Zogg Fire is fully contained after claiming 4 lives and scorching more than 50,000 acres
The devastating Zogg Fire, which killed four people and scorched more than 50,000 acres in Northern California’s Shasta County, has been fully contained, according to a news release issued by Ca...