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A 36-year-old male remains in serious condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Original Post\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman believed to be the shooter at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, and three others have been wounded, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco General Hospital says it has received three patients: A 36-year-old man is in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman is in serious condition, and a 27-year-old woman is in fair condition, according to SFGH spokesman Brent Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fourth victim, also hospitalized, suffered a lower leg injury while fleeing the building, Barberini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial reports of gunfire at the YouTube building came in at 12:46 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Early on, police in San Bruno said there was an active shooter but could not provide more information. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 1:40 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge on Thursday imposed the maximum sentence allowed by law against Pacific Gas and Electric Company for violating pipeline safety standards before and after the deadly San Bruno gas pipeline explosion in September 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the conclusion of a long-running criminal case, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson ordered the utility to pay a fine of $3 million, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/prosecutors-dramatically-slash-potential-fines-in-pge-case/\" target=\"_blank\">a tiny fraction\u003c/a> of the $562 million that federal prosecutors had originally sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find the crimes at issue to be very serious and to pose great risk to the public safety,\" Henderson said. \"Given the dismissal of allegations under the Alternative Fines Act, this is the maximum fine I’m allowed to impose by statute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304727184&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304727184'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury last year \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/pge-guilty-criminal-charges-San-Bruno/\">found PG&E guilty\u003c/a> of five counts of violating pipeline safety rules and one count of obstructing a federal investigation of the disaster that killed eight people, injured dozens more and destroyed 38 homes on Sept. 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane said $3 million was \"pocket change\" to the utility giant, but that he was happy with other conditions of PG&E's sentence. Those include five years of probation under the watch of a court-appointed monitor and thousands of advertisements the company will broadcast publicizing \"the nature of the offenses committed, the nature of the punishment imposed and the steps that will be taken to prevent the recurrence of similar offenses,\" according to the sentence Henderson read in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An independent monitor -- we pushed for that for years, and we’re going to get that,\" Ruane said after the sentencing hearing. \"It should hurt. PG&E should hurt. For us in San Bruno, the past is brought to us every day. ... It’s more than money. It’s more than politics. People died and we want some recognition of that. And I think the judge did that today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads will have to air on the same television networks and approximate times that the company purchased during its trial, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson ordered PG&E to air approximately 12,500 of the commercials over a three-month period, up to a cost of $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are they doing? Why are they advertising safety when all of this happened? You know it’s kind of a slap in the face to all of us,\" Ruane said. \"I think this will turn that feeling around to have 12,500 commercials to show, wait a minute, maybe we’re not as safe as we were projecting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Bullis, whose husband, son and mother-in-law died in the 2010 explosion, said PG&E advertisements touting the company's commitment to safety \"make me a little ill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course I would have liked prison time for the high executives, but that’s not something that was before the court, and that’s sad,\" she said. \"I thought the judgment was strong, but, you know, it’s never enough because I can never get my family back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement on the sentence, PG&E continued to highlight safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want San Bruno and all of the communities we serve to know that we at PG&E have committed ourselves to a goal of transforming this company into the safest and most reliable energy provider in America and to re-earning their trust through our actions,\" the statement says. \"[W]e fully recognize that we will always have more work to do, regardless of the significant safety actions and investments we’ve made. We sincerely apologize to the families and friends of those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic explosion and we want them to know our mission and our commitment to safety will never stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E employees also will be required to perform 10,000 hours of community service, with at least 2,000 of those hours being performed by high-level personnel, according to Henderson's reading of the sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is strongly recommend that this service should be in the town of San Bruno to the extent possible,\" Henderson said. \"The community service shall be geared toward giving back to communities affected by PG&E’s negligence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruane said he has plenty of ideas for how PG&E can fulfill its community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we can find a lot of things to fill 10,000 hours, believe me, especially with some high executives,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the company protested the prosecutor’s request to restructure PG&E’s bonus compensation program to prioritize safety. Attorneys for the utility argued that PG&E emphasizes safety, and that public and employee safety measures are supposed to make up 50 percent of bonus criteria. They also argued that the proposal could encourage employees to under-report safety incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson declined on Thursday to order the bonus restructuring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the California Public Utilities Commission fined PG&E $1.6 billion for its role in the fatal blast. That money mostly went into safety improvements and into the state's general fund. 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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco federal judge said Monday that PG&E should receive the maximum sentence for violating pipeline safety laws before and after a deadly San Bruno gas pipeline explosion in September 2010. But U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson delayed the formal sentencing until Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury last year \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/pge-guilty-criminal-charges-San-Bruno/\">found PG&E guilty\u003c/a> of five counts of violating pipeline safety rules and one count of obstructing a federal investigation of the disaster that killed eight people, injured dozens more and destroyed 38 homes on Sept. 9, 2010.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"6XsMY0ISAOZ13bPrCHYZ7OSWyBmAnoEA\"]\u003cbr>\nThe utility said in court documents that it would accept the $3 million fine, a tiny fraction of the $562 million that federal prosecutors originally sought. 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Attorneys for the utility argued that PG&E emphasizes safety, and that public and employee safety measures are supposed to make up 50 percent of bonus criteria. They also argued that the proposal could encourage employees to underreport safety incidents. Henderson said he was \"not inclined\" to support the bonus restructuring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Kane, senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer for PG&E, read a statement in court: “We sincerely apologize to the families and friends of those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic explosion and we want them to know our mission and our commitment to safety will never stop. We will remain forever committed to taking action to meet the high safety standards that our customers, and we, demand and expect. We are profoundly sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago the California Public Utilities Commission fined PG&E $1.6 billion for its role in the fatal blast. 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The company now faces a maximum fine of $3 million, a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/prosecutors-dramatically-slash-potential-fines-in-pge-case/\" target=\"_blank\">tiny fraction\u003c/a> of the $562 million federal prosecutors originally sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal investigation resoundingly blamed PG&E for the blast, citing “baffling” mistakes, sloppy oversight and a “litany of failures.\" In 2011, the National Transportation Safety Board found more than 100 violations by the company, some of them decades old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277586209\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane, reacting to the verdict, said: \"It's obviously positive. The jury came to the same conclusion we did for years. That this is not a tragic accident. It's something that could have been prevented. PG&E put profits ahead of safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E faced 12 criminal counts: 11 charges of violating pipeline safety regulations and one charge of obstructing the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation. PG&E could have received a fine of $562 million before prosecutors, in a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/prosecutors-dramatically-slash-potential-fines-in-pge-case/\" target=\"_blank\">surprise move\u003c/a> on Aug. 2, said they would request only $6 million in penalties. The utility pleaded not guilty on all charges. No company executives were specifically named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The part that’s most troubling with this is the individuals who were responsible for those short cuts that they took, the diversion of all of those funds, the $500 million that was diverted from safety, those people that made that conscious decision, nothing’s going to happen to them,\" state Sen. Jerry Hill said Tuesday, after the verdict. \"And there’s nothing to really deter or detract from this occurring in the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said in a statement that it is working hard to regain its customers' trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are very much focused on the future, we will never forget the lessons of the past,\" the statement says. \"We have made unprecedented progress in the nearly six years since the tragic San Bruno accident and we are committed to maintaining our focus on safety. We want our customers and their families to know that we are committed to re-earning their trust by acting with integrity and working around the clock to provide them with energy that is safe, reliable, affordable and clean.”\u003cbr>\n[SBsidebar]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility's lawyers said Tuesday in a short written statement that they would \"file our motion for acquittal\" next week. The motion will seek to have federal judge Thelton Henderson overturn the jury's verdict, according to legal experts. It's a fairly common, and rarely successful, legal maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Hill, it shows the utility isn't accepting responsibility for the San Bruno explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first thing you do when you want to re-earn your customers trust: You admit that you have a problem. You admit that something went wrong,\" he said. \"So they're still not getting it. They're still not admitting that there was a problem, that they acted criminally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer/\" target=\"_blank\">pipeline segment\u003c/a> that failed in San Bruno was poorly built when it was pieced together in 1956, with a poorly welded joint containing a visible crack that PG&E’s quality control failed to detect, according to the NTSB investigation. But it’s hard to see when a pipeline buried underground is deteriorating and becoming prone to failure. One way to know is through hydrostatic testing -- a process in which pipeline sections are filled with water at high pressure to detect cracks and other flaws. But when federal regulations went into effect, thousands of miles of transmission pipeline -- including Line 132 under San Bruno -- were grandfathered into operation without testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also didn't know about the weld. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/10-emails-detail-pges-cozy-relationship-with-its-regulators/\" target=\"_blank\">Emails released\u003c/a> during civil suits show a PG&E executive telling state regulators two days after the blast that \"God knows what is underground.” In the months following the blast, PG&E began tracking down pipeline records from decades past. PG&E staff collected documents from more than 46 offices. It took about 1,500 employees five days to sort through 100,000 boxes at the Cow Palace in Daly City. State regulators say that much more is known about PG&E's system today, but that the utility is still pinning down all its data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad weld was only exacerbated when the utility increased the gas pressure on that pipeline to its maximum allowable limit. PG&E officials later told federal investigators that they thought periodically \"spiking\" the pressure was necessary to show that the lines were sound. But the utility offered a series of contradictory explanations for the increase in pressure. Prosecutors argue that the utility purposefully provided the NTSB with different versions of the company's policy on spiking pressure on pipelines, obstructing justice. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30171912/attorneys-sum-up-cases-pg-e-trial-linked\" target=\"_blank\">defense argued\u003c/a> that personnel were acting in \"good faith.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial largely centered around PG&E's pipeline maintenance, record keeping and operations. Federal prosecutors argued that PG&E officials and engineers knew that they were violating federal safety rules when they deliberately increased the pressure on older, more fragile pipelines, including the one that exploded in San Bruno. The company also did not undertake expensive water pressure tests to determine the safety of older pipes. PG&E is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer/\" target=\"_blank\">still in the process\u003c/a> of testing such pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense contended that PG&E employees and executives didn't intend to break safety laws. They argued that PG&E engineers face a confusing morass of federal rules about what tests to apply to which pipelines. Defense attorney Steven Bauer hammered home that the prosecution failed to show a pattern of criminal negligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson imposed strict limits on questions and evidence about the blast itself. At the beginning of the trial \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30119589/jury-can-hear-about-san-bruno-explosion-pg\" target=\"_blank\">jurors heard\u003c/a> about numerous leaks and pressure spiking, but were not told that those problems were on the same gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno. In mid-July, though, the judge allowed witnesses, in response to questions, to discuss the actual blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony concluded July 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the company is also facing a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29606461/san-bruno-explosion-grand-jury-investigating-new-obstruction\" target=\"_blank\">new federal grand jury investigation\u003c/a> into an obstruction of justice charge, according to documents filed by PG&E attorneys in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's rare, but not unprecedented, for a utility company to face criminal charges for violating safety laws. In 1999, a ruptured pipeline killed three people and spilled more than 225,000 gallons of gasoline into creeks running through a public park in Bellingham, Washington. Federal prosecutors investigated Olympic Pipe Line Co., resulting in prison or probation for three company officials and $112 million in penalties and safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the California Public Utilities Commission \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/14/bill-would-block-pge-from-deducting-115-million-of-san-bruno-fine/\" target=\"_blank\">fined PG&E $1.6 billion\u003c/a> for its role in the deadly blast. That money went into safety improvements, to reimburse ratepayers for money not spent on safety improvements and as a penalty paid into California's general fund. However, the utility saved millions on the penalty in tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has already settled claims amounting to nearly $500 million with San Bruno victims and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rebecca Bowe and Beth Willon contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include statements from Sen. Jerry Hill and information about the defense's plan to ask the trial judge to overturn the jury's verdict.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7:21 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury found PG&E guilty Tuesday on six of 12 criminal charges, including obstruction of justice, for its role in the deadly pipeline blast almost six years ago that\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer/\" target=\"_blank\"> killed eight people\u003c/a>, injured dozens more and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno. The company now faces a maximum fine of $3 million, a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/prosecutors-dramatically-slash-potential-fines-in-pge-case/\" target=\"_blank\">tiny fraction\u003c/a> of the $562 million federal prosecutors originally sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal investigation resoundingly blamed PG&E for the blast, citing “baffling” mistakes, sloppy oversight and a “litany of failures.\" In 2011, the National Transportation Safety Board found more than 100 violations by the company, some of them decades old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277586209&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277586209'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane, reacting to the verdict, said: \"It's obviously positive. The jury came to the same conclusion we did for years. That this is not a tragic accident. It's something that could have been prevented. PG&E put profits ahead of safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The motion will seek to have federal judge Thelton Henderson overturn the jury's verdict, according to legal experts. It's a fairly common, and rarely successful, legal maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Hill, it shows the utility isn't accepting responsibility for the San Bruno explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first thing you do when you want to re-earn your customers trust: You admit that you have a problem. You admit that something went wrong,\" he said. \"So they're still not getting it. They're still not admitting that there was a problem, that they acted criminally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer/\" target=\"_blank\">pipeline segment\u003c/a> that failed in San Bruno was poorly built when it was pieced together in 1956, with a poorly welded joint containing a visible crack that PG&E’s quality control failed to detect, according to the NTSB investigation. But it’s hard to see when a pipeline buried underground is deteriorating and becoming prone to failure. One way to know is through hydrostatic testing -- a process in which pipeline sections are filled with water at high pressure to detect cracks and other flaws. But when federal regulations went into effect, thousands of miles of transmission pipeline -- including Line 132 under San Bruno -- were grandfathered into operation without testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also didn't know about the weld. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/10-emails-detail-pges-cozy-relationship-with-its-regulators/\" target=\"_blank\">Emails released\u003c/a> during civil suits show a PG&E executive telling state regulators two days after the blast that \"God knows what is underground.” In the months following the blast, PG&E began tracking down pipeline records from decades past. PG&E staff collected documents from more than 46 offices. It took about 1,500 employees five days to sort through 100,000 boxes at the Cow Palace in Daly City. State regulators say that much more is known about PG&E's system today, but that the utility is still pinning down all its data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad weld was only exacerbated when the utility increased the gas pressure on that pipeline to its maximum allowable limit. PG&E officials later told federal investigators that they thought periodically \"spiking\" the pressure was necessary to show that the lines were sound. But the utility offered a series of contradictory explanations for the increase in pressure. Prosecutors argue that the utility purposefully provided the NTSB with different versions of the company's policy on spiking pressure on pipelines, obstructing justice. 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They argued that PG&E engineers face a confusing morass of federal rules about what tests to apply to which pipelines. Defense attorney Steven Bauer hammered home that the prosecution failed to show a pattern of criminal negligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson imposed strict limits on questions and evidence about the blast itself. At the beginning of the trial \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30119589/jury-can-hear-about-san-bruno-explosion-pg\" target=\"_blank\">jurors heard\u003c/a> about numerous leaks and pressure spiking, but were not told that those problems were on the same gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno. In mid-July, though, the judge allowed witnesses, in response to questions, to discuss the actual blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony concluded July 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the company is also facing a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29606461/san-bruno-explosion-grand-jury-investigating-new-obstruction\" target=\"_blank\">new federal grand jury investigation\u003c/a> into an obstruction of justice charge, according to documents filed by PG&E attorneys in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's rare, but not unprecedented, for a utility company to face criminal charges for violating safety laws. In 1999, a ruptured pipeline killed three people and spilled more than 225,000 gallons of gasoline into creeks running through a public park in Bellingham, Washington. 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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. officials moved Thursday to strengthen safety rules for the nation's 300,000-mile network of natural gas transmission pipelines in a belated response to numerous fiery accidents, including a 2010 California explosion that killed eight people and injured more than 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation proposal would expand inspection and repair rules to include lines in some rural areas and recently-installed lines in burgeoning gas drilling fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"SVdBOmW1RgF3e0VlvR79MVzBSCSHvJnP\"]Pressure-testing for leaks would be required on older lines that were previously exempt, such as the Pacific Gas and Electric Company pipe constructed in 1956 that broke and torched a residential neighborhood in San Bruno, California, six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the government sidestepped for now action on emergency valves that can automatically shut down ruptured gas lines. That issue was highlighted by San Bruno, where a 30-inch-diameter pipeline buried beneath a suburban street continued spewing gas for 95 minutes after it broke, destroying 38 homes and damaging 70 others before a utility worker manually shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press has reported on the potential benefits of automatic valves, and safety officials have urged making them mandatory. The gas industry has resisted, in part due to their potential high cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two decades, the government has recorded more than 2,000 accidents on gas transmission lines across the U.S., resulting in 46 deaths, 181 injuries and $1.8 billion in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP obtained details on Thursday's proposal in advance of its public release. Complying would cost companies an estimated $597 million to $711 million over the next 15 years, according to federal and industry officials. Benefits primarily from hundreds of avoided accidents would total $3.2 billion to $4.7 billion over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the changes represent commonsense measures needed to handle a dramatic increase in domestic natural gas production in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They would bring under federal regulation for the first time roughly 70,000 miles of \"gathering lines\" that transport fuel from gas fields to storage areas or into transmission systems, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The significant growth in the nation's production, usage and commercialization of natural gas is placing unprecedented demands on the nation's pipeline system,\" Foxx said in a statement provided to the AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules would extend pressure-testing to include lines built before 1970, a step the National Transportation Safety Board has long recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some companies already have been testing older lines voluntarily, said Marie Therese Dominguez, administrator for the Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. But Dominguez said the agency has identified 7,400 miles of pipe that have never been assessed for problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really do think this is going to lead to a higher level of safety,\" she said. \"It's going to reduce the number of incidents related to gas transmission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Santa, president of Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, said the industry group would look closely at the proposal to see if it is consistent with a voluntary program its members adopted in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pipeline safety advocates said the proposal was long overdue and addresses major gaps in government oversight of the industry. That includes expanding inspection and repair rules to include rural areas where companies to date largely have been self-regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carl Weimer with the Bellingham, Washington-based Pipeline Safety Trust said no requirement for automatic shut-off valves was a glaring shortcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw in San Bruno, when someone has to jump in a truck and drive through rush-hour traffic to manually shut off a valve, how much longer that left that blowtorch to blow into that neighborhood,\" Weimer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His comments were echoed by U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, whose San Francisco-area district includes San Bruno. She expressed disappointment that rules were so long in the making. Speier added that action on automatic valves needs to come quickly, and the government must protect public safety, \"not industry profit margins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Installing automatic valves would cost $100,000 to $1 million each, according to estimates from utility officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominguez said the use of automatic shut-off valves remained a high priority for the agency and would be addressed separately. She could not offer a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two decades, the government has recorded more than 2,000 accidents on gas transmission lines across the U.S., resulting in 46 deaths, 181 injuries and $1.8 billion in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP obtained details on Thursday's proposal in advance of its public release. Complying would cost companies an estimated $597 million to $711 million over the next 15 years, according to federal and industry officials. Benefits primarily from hundreds of avoided accidents would total $3.2 billion to $4.7 billion over the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the changes represent commonsense measures needed to handle a dramatic increase in domestic natural gas production in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They would bring under federal regulation for the first time roughly 70,000 miles of \"gathering lines\" that transport fuel from gas fields to storage areas or into transmission systems, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The significant growth in the nation's production, usage and commercialization of natural gas is placing unprecedented demands on the nation's pipeline system,\" Foxx said in a statement provided to the AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules would extend pressure-testing to include lines built before 1970, a step the National Transportation Safety Board has long recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some companies already have been testing older lines voluntarily, said Marie Therese Dominguez, administrator for the Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. But Dominguez said the agency has identified 7,400 miles of pipe that have never been assessed for problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really do think this is going to lead to a higher level of safety,\" she said. \"It's going to reduce the number of incidents related to gas transmission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Santa, president of Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, said the industry group would look closely at the proposal to see if it is consistent with a voluntary program its members adopted in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pipeline safety advocates said the proposal was long overdue and addresses major gaps in government oversight of the industry. That includes expanding inspection and repair rules to include rural areas where companies to date largely have been self-regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carl Weimer with the Bellingham, Washington-based Pipeline Safety Trust said no requirement for automatic shut-off valves was a glaring shortcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw in San Bruno, when someone has to jump in a truck and drive through rush-hour traffic to manually shut off a valve, how much longer that left that blowtorch to blow into that neighborhood,\" Weimer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His comments were echoed by U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, whose San Francisco-area district includes San Bruno. She expressed disappointment that rules were so long in the making. Speier added that action on automatic valves needs to come quickly, and the government must protect public safety, \"not industry profit margins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Installing automatic valves would cost $100,000 to $1 million each, according to estimates from utility officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominguez said the use of automatic shut-off valves remained a high priority for the agency and would be addressed separately. She could not offer a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/Changes-for-Cal-Fire-budget-with-extended-fire-threats\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires\u003c/a> to the potential for landslides if \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201509111000\">El Nino\u003c/a> sends wind and sheets of rain pummeling the California coastline this winter, there was plenty to discuss on Thursday as top executives from the state’s major utility companies faced regulators in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporate executives filed into an auditorium at the California Public Utilities Commission building for a packed public forum, billed as a \"safety en banc\" and convened as part of the agency's efforts to prioritize safety in the wake of the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility executives were asked to present in order of the number of safety incidents each company had been flagged for, from lowest to highest. Southern California Gas went first, followed by San Diego Gas & Electric, Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company CEOs and safety bosses described their methods for measuring and developing best practices. “For me it’s personal,” said PG&E gas director Nick Stavropoulos, adding that his mindset was to “never forget \u003ca href=\"http://news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer\" target=\"_blank\">San Bruno\u003c/a> and do whatever we can to make sure it never happens again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a presentation, CPUC Safety and Enforcement Division Director Elizaveta Malashenko revealed that PG&E had racked up far more natural-gas safety violations than other utilities in 2014, with 16 associated with hazardous incidents and another 104 uncovered through regulatory inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stavropoulos said he’d been authorized to spend more than $2 billion in shareholder funding on pipeline safety upgrades since joining PG&E. Geisha Williams, who directs the utility's electric division, said PG&E had recently stepped up its efforts to clear tree limbs and eliminate fire hazards near its 2.4 million utility poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These efforts haven’t completely prevented dangerous outcomes, however. A recent investigation linked the possible ignition source of the Butte Fire -- which left a disaster zone in its wake -- to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/utilities-urged-to-step-up-fire-prevention-long-before-deadly-blaze\" target=\"_blank\">a PG&E power line\u003c/a>. An underground PG&E gas line leak, meanwhile, triggered an explosion that blew up a cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately following that incident, “we had visits from PG&E representatives. They told us all our questions would be answered,” Victoria Beach, a city councilmember of Carmel-by-the-Sea, told commissioners at the hearing. “We were full of questions that we wanted answered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the results of an investigation were released, “nearly all of our questions were still unanswered,” she said. “We have never gotten answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Michael Picker offered to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will arrange a phone call between Mr. Stavropolous, myself and you, if that will help,” he promised Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Hofmann, a business representative for the Utility Workers Union of America Local 132, offered the perspective of someone who had worked on gas pipelines. “I’m a second-generation gas company employee, and I’m proud of it,\" he told commissioners by way of introduction. \"I’ve had the great misfortune of almost being electrocuted. Or I guess you could say, the great fortune of only nearly being electrocuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hofmann said utility workers in his union, which represents Southern California Gas Company employees, had encountered safety hazards out in the field that required more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A formal whistleblower program is in place to encourage employees to report safety matters, but Hofmann said it wasn't always effective. “The men and women that I represent are blue-collar workers, and it’s just not in the fiber of their being, to want to -- for a lack of a better way of describing it -- snitch out their employer,” he said. Fear of retaliation remains high, he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hofmann also flagged Aldyl A, a type of plastic used in many smaller gas distribution pipelines that's susceptible to cracking over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bad pipe,” he said. “It was bad when it was sold, and it’s worse now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While utility crews who perform maintenance on the pipe have taken to installing clamps as a preventive measure to safeguard against cracking over time, “We have no idea whether it’s working or not,” he explained. The plastic also has a greater propensity for static-electricity buildup, he said, creating the potential for it to become a source of ignition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of miles of Aldyl A pipe run underground throughout the state. Sumeet Singh, who oversees integrity management for PG&E, said in an interview that not all of it is a cause for concern, but that the utility has taken steps to identify which segments present a higher risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a proactive program to go out and replace this type of pipe,” he said. On an annual basis, Singh estimated PG&E replaces 100 to 125 miles of distribution pipeline, the vast majority of which is Aldyl A. The company’s distribution network spans some 42,000 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson, who has been an advocate for reform ever since the 2010 gas-line rupture that killed eight San Bruno residents, said she was encouraged by the CPUC’s renewed focus on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The commission’s new and priority focus on safety comes as a direct result not just of the tragic incident, but the role that the city of San Bruno has played in forwarding these issues through the commission’s process,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E’s presentation today I thought was interesting, and I thought it was informative,\" she added. \"I think that PG&E has a long ways to go ... but I have seen progress.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jonah Piserchio was 5 years old and just sitting down to dinner with his family when a PG&E pipeline ruptured on Sept. 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember before the fire started, the ground started shaking,\" he says, \"and I thought it was an earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His home in the Crestmoor neighborhood of San Bruno was mere blocks from the blast site. Jonah's father, Phil Piserchio, says the family started to move toward a doorframe, but soon realized something unusual was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cstrong>Listen to the story\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222928058\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More in this series\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/fiveyearssquare.jpg\" alt=\"fiveyearssquare\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10674694\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/fiveyearssquare.jpg 60w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/fiveyearssquare-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer\" target=\"_blank\">Five Years After Deadly San Bruno Explosion: Are We Safer?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/10-emails-detail-pges-cozy-relationship-with-its-regulators\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672188\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/10emails.jpg\" alt=\"10emails\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/10emails.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/10emails-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/10-emails-detail-pges-cozy-relationship-with-its-regulators\" target=\"_blank\">10 Emails That Detail PG&E’s Cozy Relationship With Regulators\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been in earthquakes before,\" he says, \"but never past 10 seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, they heard a steady roar like an airplane engine. When the room got hot, they headed for the garage, glancing out a window on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I saw a fire in the canyon, smoke in the front,\" says Phil. \"I thought, 'Are we surrounded by fire, what’s going on?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonah says his dad shouted to everyone to get in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And so we were, like, running in the car,\" says Jonah, \"rolling up the windows so the smoke doesn’t get in our car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, Betti Magoolaghan -- who was pregnant and had three small children -- called her husband at his San Francisco office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard her say, ‘A plane crashed in our backyard,’ \" says Bill Magoolaghan. \"And I said, ‘Well, what are you doing?’ And she said ‘We're running.’ I said, ‘Keep running!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews started coming in from every direction. Fire Division Chief Kevin McWhirter was one of the early responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically we won't get a lot of people that pull over for us as we respond, and this was unique and everyone was pulling over. So I think everybody out -- that either heard a blast or could see the column of smoke -- knew something big was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10672201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10672201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Crestmoor neighborhood is still rebuilding, five years after the pipeline explosion.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crestmoor neighborhood is still rebuilding, five years after the pipeline explosion. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fire was so hot it cracked the windshield of the first engine to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police started evacuating Crestmoor within minutes, going door to door and, in some cases, forcing people from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference the next morning, a visibly shaken fire chief described the blast site as “a moonscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastation displaced many families for months and in some cases for years. Ten families never came back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days the Crestmoor neighborhood buzzes with construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 38 homes that were destroyed, 22 have been rebuilt and the families have returned to the neighborhood. A few lots will be used to rebuild a playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Piserchio’s home withstood the disaster, but his scorched roof was as brittle as potato chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first checked on his place he found a thick layer of soot on the walls and on the floor. He could even see the tracks of firefighters who had gone through the house to build a firebreak in his backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This has been a profound moment for all of us to say: We really can make a difference, and if we don’t, it would be worse.’ \u003ccite>Connie Jackson, San Bruno city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Piserchio and his two kids were back in their home by Christmas 2010. He says his son and daughter have had counseling, but they didn't seem afraid to move back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were totally excited -- super excited -- to come back to their rooms and everything,\" Piserchio says. \"It was actually more scary for me to come back because at the time it was kind of like a ghost town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking out over his backyard from the deck, Piserchio points to a faint trail sloping away from his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That little dirt, little path there,\" he says, \"that's where the firebreak is that the firemen built. Which is kind of odd, I think -- after five years, it's not grown back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bill Magoolaghan was first allowed to return to his house, he says the water that had been used to douse the fire had rotted everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a huge dumpster in our driveway.” Magoolaghan remembers. “Sofas were poking out, our TV was there. All of our clothes, all of our kids' toys were all in the dumpster. That was one of the toughest moments, to come and just see everything being thrown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10672351\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10672351 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Magoolaghan reads to his 4-year-old son, Cole, at their rebuilt home in San Bruno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-1920x1275.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Magoolaghan reads to his 4-year-old son, Cole, at their rebuilt home in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family spent 15 months in a rental while they gutted and rebuilt their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan says his children spent even longer in therapy for trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were old enough to really understand what was going on and they were certainly very afraid,\" he says. \"And that's, I think, what drove the nightmares that they had for the ensuing year or so and not being able to sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan says he hopes the five-year mark for the disaster will be a turning point for his family and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are going really good,\" he says. \"The kids are healthy, the kids are happy, my wife is doing really well. So we don’t want to go backwards, we want to keep on moving forwards. The San Bruno blast will always be a part of us -- we can’t get rid of it -- but we don’t want to dwell on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10672568\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 313px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/san-bruno.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/san-bruno.png\" alt=\"Impact area of the San Bruno explosion.\" width=\"313\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10672568\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Impact area of the San Bruno explosion. \u003ccite>(Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan is one of hundreds of people who have filed lawsuits against PG&E. So has the city of San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have spent $29 million in disaster response, and have devoted substantial resources to push for reforms they believe will make California’s natural gas pipelines safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Connie Jackson says the disaster made their jobs more demanding, but also more meaningful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a profound moment for all of us to say: We really can make a difference, and if we don't, it would be worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson expects costs from the disaster to exceed the $50 million trust fund that PG&E has set up for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno holds a remembrance ceremony at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, at the blast site in Crestmoor.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jonah Piserchio was 5 years old and just sitting down to dinner with his family when a PG&E pipeline ruptured on Sept. 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember before the fire started, the ground started shaking,\" he says, \"and I thought it was an earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His home in the Crestmoor neighborhood of San Bruno was mere blocks from the blast site. Jonah's father, Phil Piserchio, says the family started to move toward a doorframe, but soon realized something unusual was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cstrong>Listen to the story\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222928058&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222928058'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More in this series\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/fiveyearssquare.jpg\" alt=\"fiveyearssquare\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10674694\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/fiveyearssquare.jpg 60w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/fiveyearssquare-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer\" target=\"_blank\">Five Years After Deadly San Bruno Explosion: Are We Safer?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/10-emails-detail-pges-cozy-relationship-with-its-regulators\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672188\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/10emails.jpg\" alt=\"10emails\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/10emails.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/10emails-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/10-emails-detail-pges-cozy-relationship-with-its-regulators\" target=\"_blank\">10 Emails That Detail PG&E’s Cozy Relationship With Regulators\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been in earthquakes before,\" he says, \"but never past 10 seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, they heard a steady roar like an airplane engine. When the room got hot, they headed for the garage, glancing out a window on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I saw a fire in the canyon, smoke in the front,\" says Phil. \"I thought, 'Are we surrounded by fire, what’s going on?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonah says his dad shouted to everyone to get in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And so we were, like, running in the car,\" says Jonah, \"rolling up the windows so the smoke doesn’t get in our car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, Betti Magoolaghan -- who was pregnant and had three small children -- called her husband at his San Francisco office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard her say, ‘A plane crashed in our backyard,’ \" says Bill Magoolaghan. \"And I said, ‘Well, what are you doing?’ And she said ‘We're running.’ I said, ‘Keep running!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews started coming in from every direction. Fire Division Chief Kevin McWhirter was one of the early responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically we won't get a lot of people that pull over for us as we respond, and this was unique and everyone was pulling over. So I think everybody out -- that either heard a blast or could see the column of smoke -- knew something big was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10672201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10672201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Crestmoor neighborhood is still rebuilding, five years after the pipeline explosion.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16593_IMG_0491-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crestmoor neighborhood is still rebuilding, five years after the pipeline explosion. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fire was so hot it cracked the windshield of the first engine to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police started evacuating Crestmoor within minutes, going door to door and, in some cases, forcing people from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference the next morning, a visibly shaken fire chief described the blast site as “a moonscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastation displaced many families for months and in some cases for years. Ten families never came back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days the Crestmoor neighborhood buzzes with construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 38 homes that were destroyed, 22 have been rebuilt and the families have returned to the neighborhood. A few lots will be used to rebuild a playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Piserchio’s home withstood the disaster, but his scorched roof was as brittle as potato chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first checked on his place he found a thick layer of soot on the walls and on the floor. He could even see the tracks of firefighters who had gone through the house to build a firebreak in his backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This has been a profound moment for all of us to say: We really can make a difference, and if we don’t, it would be worse.’ \u003ccite>Connie Jackson, San Bruno city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Piserchio and his two kids were back in their home by Christmas 2010. He says his son and daughter have had counseling, but they didn't seem afraid to move back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were totally excited -- super excited -- to come back to their rooms and everything,\" Piserchio says. \"It was actually more scary for me to come back because at the time it was kind of like a ghost town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking out over his backyard from the deck, Piserchio points to a faint trail sloping away from his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That little dirt, little path there,\" he says, \"that's where the firebreak is that the firemen built. Which is kind of odd, I think -- after five years, it's not grown back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bill Magoolaghan was first allowed to return to his house, he says the water that had been used to douse the fire had rotted everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a huge dumpster in our driveway.” Magoolaghan remembers. “Sofas were poking out, our TV was there. All of our clothes, all of our kids' toys were all in the dumpster. That was one of the toughest moments, to come and just see everything being thrown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10672351\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10672351 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Magoolaghan reads to his 4-year-old son, Cole, at their rebuilt home in San Bruno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-1920x1275.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_5891-e1441671441498-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Magoolaghan reads to his 4-year-old son, Cole, at their rebuilt home in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family spent 15 months in a rental while they gutted and rebuilt their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan says his children spent even longer in therapy for trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were old enough to really understand what was going on and they were certainly very afraid,\" he says. \"And that's, I think, what drove the nightmares that they had for the ensuing year or so and not being able to sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan says he hopes the five-year mark for the disaster will be a turning point for his family and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are going really good,\" he says. \"The kids are healthy, the kids are happy, my wife is doing really well. So we don’t want to go backwards, we want to keep on moving forwards. The San Bruno blast will always be a part of us -- we can’t get rid of it -- but we don’t want to dwell on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10672568\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 313px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/san-bruno.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/san-bruno.png\" alt=\"Impact area of the San Bruno explosion.\" width=\"313\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10672568\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Impact area of the San Bruno explosion. \u003ccite>(Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Magoolaghan is one of hundreds of people who have filed lawsuits against PG&E. So has the city of San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have spent $29 million in disaster response, and have devoted substantial resources to push for reforms they believe will make California’s natural gas pipelines safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Connie Jackson says the disaster made their jobs more demanding, but also more meaningful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a profound moment for all of us to say: We really can make a difference, and if we don't, it would be worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson expects costs from the disaster to exceed the $50 million trust fund that PG&E has set up for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The timing of Pacific Gas and Electric's Tuesday announcement that company President Christopher Johns will retire by the end of the year is generating some speculation from observers and critics of the California utility giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johns joined the company in 1996 as vice president and controller and took his current post about a year before a PG&E gas transmission line exploded in San Bruno in September 2010, killing eight people, injuring dozens more and destroying 38 homes. The retirement announcement comes about a week after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Federal-grand-jury-opens-corruption-probe-of-6279534.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that federal prosecutors had brought to a grand jury an investigation into potentially illegal ties between PG&E executives and regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation is in addition to an ongoing federal criminal trial charging PG&E -- the company, but not the people running it -- with violations of pipeline safety laws. The state attorney general is also investigating PG&E communications with CPUC regulators, but has yet to file any charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Skeet is a corporate ethics expert and director of a leadership ethics program at Santa Clara University. She said it's noteworthy that Johns kept his position following the San Bruno explosion, even as people above and below him were replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the initial assessment about who was responsible both for culture creation and execution following the San Bruno blast, Mr. Johns got a bye,\" she said. \"Other people were held responsible for that, and probably appropriately so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Skeet said, the fact that Johns kept his post through the deadliest pipeline disaster in state history could be seen as an endorsement of his ability, or at least an internal exoneration for any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He’s clearly got a long history with the company,\" she said. \"Even with everything that’s happened at the company, his contributions as an individual have been valued and continue to be valued.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Michael Picker \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/09/cpuc-approves-1-6-billion-fine-for-pge-over-san-bruno-disaster\" target=\"_blank\">questioned\u003c/a> Johns' maintaining the post last month after the commission voted to fine PG&E $1.6 billion for the San Bruno explosion. He wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D8E5C7F1-A0A1-48C3-A80B-7FEDC84F9529/0/PresidentPickerCommentsonPGESafetyCultureandEnforcementTheory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">document\u003c/a>, excerpted below, as he questioned the commission's ability to regulate PG&E:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Do PG&E board directors or executive officers feel CPUC sanctions directly? Is there anyone with authority within the company who is accountable for our fines and penalties? What mechanism holds them accountable? The CEO who held that position [Peter Darbee] at the time of the San Bruno incident, and during cuts in funding pipeline replacement and inspection programs, retired with a reported $38 million bonus. The president of PG&E at the time of the San Bruno incident [Chris Johns] is still the president.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Where is the accountability for the people that led PG&E into the San Bruno explosion?\" asked Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network (TURN). \"Too often, we feel executives have been rewarded for boosting profits rather than safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spatt said there have been numerous PG&E pipeline safety incidents since San Bruno. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) \u003ca href=\"http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/operator/OperatorIM_opid_15007.html?nocache=5564#_Incidents_tab_4\" target=\"_blank\">recorded 27 incidents\u003c/a> on PG&E's gas transmission network since Sept. 9, 2010. Many involve excavation damage. Property damage from the 12 with other causes -- like material, weld or equipment failures -- totals $6,800,940. By contrast, property damage from the San Bruno incident alone was $375,363,000, according to PHMSA records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Campbell heads the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He said running the \"sprawling\" utility isn't an easy job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chris Johns was there for some very significant changes at PG&E and in the California energy industry,\" he said. \"It’s been an amazing period of change in terms of new renewable energy coming online in the state.\" He said PG&E leads the country in \"distributed generation,\" like solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E CEO Tony Earley thanked Johns for \"his exemplary commitment and service,\" in a written statement. The statement said the company's board of directors will seek to find Johns' replacement before he retires on Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are fortunate to have developed a deep bench,\" Earley said. \"Chris and I are both incredibly proud of the caliber of talented people who have joined our leadership team as we have worked to make PG&E the safest and most reliable utility in the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Skeet said, the fact that Johns kept his post through the deadliest pipeline disaster in state history could be seen as an endorsement of his ability, or at least an internal exoneration for any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He’s clearly got a long history with the company,\" she said. \"Even with everything that’s happened at the company, his contributions as an individual have been valued and continue to be valued.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Michael Picker \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/09/cpuc-approves-1-6-billion-fine-for-pge-over-san-bruno-disaster\" target=\"_blank\">questioned\u003c/a> Johns' maintaining the post last month after the commission voted to fine PG&E $1.6 billion for the San Bruno explosion. He wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D8E5C7F1-A0A1-48C3-A80B-7FEDC84F9529/0/PresidentPickerCommentsonPGESafetyCultureandEnforcementTheory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">document\u003c/a>, excerpted below, as he questioned the commission's ability to regulate PG&E:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Do PG&E board directors or executive officers feel CPUC sanctions directly? Is there anyone with authority within the company who is accountable for our fines and penalties? What mechanism holds them accountable? The CEO who held that position [Peter Darbee] at the time of the San Bruno incident, and during cuts in funding pipeline replacement and inspection programs, retired with a reported $38 million bonus. The president of PG&E at the time of the San Bruno incident [Chris Johns] is still the president.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Where is the accountability for the people that led PG&E into the San Bruno explosion?\" asked Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network (TURN). \"Too often, we feel executives have been rewarded for boosting profits rather than safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spatt said there have been numerous PG&E pipeline safety incidents since San Bruno. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) \u003ca href=\"http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/operator/OperatorIM_opid_15007.html?nocache=5564#_Incidents_tab_4\" target=\"_blank\">recorded 27 incidents\u003c/a> on PG&E's gas transmission network since Sept. 9, 2010. Many involve excavation damage. Property damage from the 12 with other causes -- like material, weld or equipment failures -- totals $6,800,940. By contrast, property damage from the San Bruno incident alone was $375,363,000, according to PHMSA records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Campbell heads the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He said running the \"sprawling\" utility isn't an easy job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chris Johns was there for some very significant changes at PG&E and in the California energy industry,\" he said. \"It’s been an amazing period of change in terms of new renewable energy coming online in the state.\" He said PG&E leads the country in \"distributed generation,\" like solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E CEO Tony Earley thanked Johns for \"his exemplary commitment and service,\" in a written statement. The statement said the company's board of directors will seek to find Johns' replacement before he retires on Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are fortunate to have developed a deep bench,\" Earley said. \"Chris and I are both incredibly proud of the caliber of talented people who have joined our leadership team as we have worked to make PG&E the safest and most reliable utility in the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission voted 4-0 Thursday to fine PG&E $1.6 billion for its role in the September 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people, injured 66 others and destroyed 38 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline segment had a defective seam weld, which company records showed did not exist. In assigning blame for the disaster, federal investigators faulted both PG&E and lax oversight by the CPUC\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20150409_pge_says_lessons_of_tragic_san_bruno_explosion_will_not_be_forgotten\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> released after today's vote, PG&E Chairman and CEO Tony Earley said the company will review today's ruling, but does not expect to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be very clear -- our focus is on moving forward to complete the important safety work we set out to do,\" he said. \"We’ve made tremendous progress but we have more to do and we are committed to doing it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200090135\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement went on to list a number of safety improvements the company has made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Michael Picker, who took office in December, acknowledged those improvements in remarks made after the vote. Nonetheless, the takeaway from his comments may very well be his questioning of the commission's ability to oversee PG&E, given that safety lapses have continued well after San Bruno, and that the CPUC is loath to levy penalties great enough to negatively affect the utility's cost of borrowing, as those are sure to be passed along to ratepayers. (You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D8E5C7F1-A0A1-48C3-A80B-7FEDC84F9529/0/PresidentPickerCommentsonPGESafetyCultureandEnforcementTheory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">read his complete comments here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/State-regulator-says-PG-E-may-be-too-big-to-6189467.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle's Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/a>, who has closely followed the San Bruno story from the beginning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he regulatory agency’s president said the utility continues to have gas-system problems, is able to shrug off even the harshest sanctions the state can muster and may be too big to operate safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after it promised to make reforms following the September 2010 blast ... PG&E has been cited several times for natural-gas safety violations, commission President Michael Picker noted Thursday at the panel’s meeting in San Francisco. “If, indeed, PG&E is failing to establish a safety culture, and we continue to see more accidents and violations of safety rules, what are our tools?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is the organization simply too large — spread across a sizable portion of a large state, and encompassing diverse functions such as both gas transmission and gas distribution, as well as electric service — to succeed at safety?” Picker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker said the state’s lawyers would look into the question and did not give details about what steps the commission might take. But he suggested that PG&E’s profitability made it immune even to hefty penalties such as the one the utilities commission approved Thursday on a 4-0 vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other comments from Picker, culled from a release sent out by the commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After the announcement of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D867C379-D46F-400E-8857-D8EB87D3FD1A/0/CPUCProposesRemediesinPGEPipelineCaseIncreasingPenaltyAmountby200Millionand850Million.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Decision Different\u003c/a> [Picker's alternate penalty proposal] a month ago, PG&E share value went up 3%. Are shareholders discomfited? I signaled in this proceeding my intent to limit our penalties at $2.45 billion, so as to avoid raising the costs for PG&E to borrow to cover operations that will later be funded through ERRA or other balancing accounts. Clearly the market took this all into account, and so may have little incentive to get engaged on behalf of shareholders. Shareholders simply may be abdicating their responsibility to hold their Board of Directors accountable to state laws and rules, knowing that we have an interest in limiting our sanctions to levels that they, as owners, can live with, so as to avoid impacts on ratepayers, as well. Capital markets, then, are treating fines and penalties as a cost of doing business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do PG&E board directors or executive officers feel CPUC sanctions directly? Is there anyone with authority within the company who is accountable for our fines and penalties? What mechanism holds them accountable? The CEO who held that position [Peter Darbee] at the time of the San Bruno incident, and during cuts in funding pipeline replacement and inspection programs, retired with a reported $38 million bonus. The president of PG&E at the time of the San Bruno incident (Chris Johns) is still the president.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Picker also discussed the possibility of wielding accountability mechanisms against upper management like those included in the federal Sarbanes-Oxley law, which was enacted in response to the accounting scandals (Enron, Worldcom, et. al.) of the early 2000s:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Can we borrow from the Sarbanes-Oxley model by requiring senior executives and senior management to attest to the veracity and completeness of reports, and holding them accountable for untrue or misleading or incomplete statements? Should we require them to attest that their safety programs will be effective? How would we respond if they fail to build and manage a safe utility? Should we add “clawbacks” to executive compensation or stock options, as has been suggested in the corporate governance literature?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Proposals For Penalties and Fine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the votebat CPUC headquarters in San Francisco, the four commissioners considered two alternate packages of penalties and fines, one amounting to $1.4 billion and the other, which was eventually approved, totaling $1.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"sCXC1HOKAgw20muxv0GMkm7QgRLyr4i9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1.4 billion penalty was proposed by two PUC administrative law judges in September. The $1.6 billion amount was recommended in March by Picker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners could have accepted either proposal or could have decided on a modified version with an increased or decreased penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s fifth member, Mike Florio, did not participate because he voluntarily recused himself after email messages came to light that showed private communications between Florio and PG&E executives in other cases before the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno officials supported the larger penalty. “We believe this historic penalty sends the right message that gross negligence, corruption and profits-over-safety will no longer be tolerated,\" said Mayor Jim Ruane last month,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both proposals, the costs of the penalties and fines will be absorbed by shareholders and not by customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal that passed devotes an $850 million penalty to pipeline safety improvements and levies a $300 million fine to be paid to the state’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternate proposal by administrative law judges Mark Wetzell and Amy Yip-Kikugawa would have provided a $950 million fine for the general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both proposals included a $400 million bill credit for customers and $50 million for previously identified improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals were issued in a coordinated case that combines three PUC proceedings that investigated the San Bruno explosion, PG&E record-keeping practices and its pipeline operations in locations with high population density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The penalty will be added to $635 million for pipeline modernization that the commission previously ruled must be paid by shareholders. 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(You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D8E5C7F1-A0A1-48C3-A80B-7FEDC84F9529/0/PresidentPickerCommentsonPGESafetyCultureandEnforcementTheory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">read his complete comments here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/State-regulator-says-PG-E-may-be-too-big-to-6189467.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle's Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/a>, who has closely followed the San Bruno story from the beginning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he regulatory agency’s president said the utility continues to have gas-system problems, is able to shrug off even the harshest sanctions the state can muster and may be too big to operate safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after it promised to make reforms following the September 2010 blast ... PG&E has been cited several times for natural-gas safety violations, commission President Michael Picker noted Thursday at the panel’s meeting in San Francisco. “If, indeed, PG&E is failing to establish a safety culture, and we continue to see more accidents and violations of safety rules, what are our tools?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is the organization simply too large — spread across a sizable portion of a large state, and encompassing diverse functions such as both gas transmission and gas distribution, as well as electric service — to succeed at safety?” Picker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker said the state’s lawyers would look into the question and did not give details about what steps the commission might take. But he suggested that PG&E’s profitability made it immune even to hefty penalties such as the one the utilities commission approved Thursday on a 4-0 vote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other comments from Picker, culled from a release sent out by the commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After the announcement of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D867C379-D46F-400E-8857-D8EB87D3FD1A/0/CPUCProposesRemediesinPGEPipelineCaseIncreasingPenaltyAmountby200Millionand850Million.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Decision Different\u003c/a> [Picker's alternate penalty proposal] a month ago, PG&E share value went up 3%. Are shareholders discomfited? I signaled in this proceeding my intent to limit our penalties at $2.45 billion, so as to avoid raising the costs for PG&E to borrow to cover operations that will later be funded through ERRA or other balancing accounts. Clearly the market took this all into account, and so may have little incentive to get engaged on behalf of shareholders. Shareholders simply may be abdicating their responsibility to hold their Board of Directors accountable to state laws and rules, knowing that we have an interest in limiting our sanctions to levels that they, as owners, can live with, so as to avoid impacts on ratepayers, as well. Capital markets, then, are treating fines and penalties as a cost of doing business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do PG&E board directors or executive officers feel CPUC sanctions directly? Is there anyone with authority within the company who is accountable for our fines and penalties? What mechanism holds them accountable? The CEO who held that position [Peter Darbee] at the time of the San Bruno incident, and during cuts in funding pipeline replacement and inspection programs, retired with a reported $38 million bonus. The president of PG&E at the time of the San Bruno incident (Chris Johns) is still the president.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Picker also discussed the possibility of wielding accountability mechanisms against upper management like those included in the federal Sarbanes-Oxley law, which was enacted in response to the accounting scandals (Enron, Worldcom, et. al.) of the early 2000s:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Can we borrow from the Sarbanes-Oxley model by requiring senior executives and senior management to attest to the veracity and completeness of reports, and holding them accountable for untrue or misleading or incomplete statements? Should we require them to attest that their safety programs will be effective? How would we respond if they fail to build and manage a safe utility? 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The $1.6 billion amount was recommended in March by Picker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners could have accepted either proposal or could have decided on a modified version with an increased or decreased penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s fifth member, Mike Florio, did not participate because he voluntarily recused himself after email messages came to light that showed private communications between Florio and PG&E executives in other cases before the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno officials supported the larger penalty. “We believe this historic penalty sends the right message that gross negligence, corruption and profits-over-safety will no longer be tolerated,\" said Mayor Jim Ruane last month,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both proposals, the costs of the penalties and fines will be absorbed by shareholders and not by customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal that passed devotes an $850 million penalty to pipeline safety improvements and levies a $300 million fine to be paid to the state’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternate proposal by administrative law judges Mark Wetzell and Amy Yip-Kikugawa would have provided a $950 million fine for the general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both proposals included a $400 million bill credit for customers and $50 million for previously identified improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals were issued in a coordinated case that combines three PUC proceedings that investigated the San Bruno explosion, PG&E record-keeping practices and its pipeline operations in locations with high population density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The penalty will be added to $635 million for pipeline modernization that the commission previously ruled must be paid by shareholders. The total of the new and previous penalties would be more than $2 billion, the largest in PUC’s history in a safety-related case, according to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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