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That means both parties must give ongoing, affirmative consent during any sexual activity. \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/12/22/yes-means-yes-law-going-into-effect/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In Silicon Valley, do the jerks always win\u003c/strong>? \u003cem>(ComputerWorld)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors, Paul Graham, believes that investing in jerks (his term) is not just a kind of bad karma, but bad for business as well. ... He told Business Insider: “... We realized it had been a clever move to filter out jerks, because it made the alumni network really tight … based on what I've seen so far, the good people have the advantage over the jerks.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerworld.com/article/2862213/in-silicon-valley-do-the-jerks-always-win.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Gas prices down a record 88 days in a row\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Wall Street Journal)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This year more Americans are expected to take to the road for the holidays than ever before, and they will pay much less at the gas pump as they go. U.S. gasoline prices have declined for 88 consecutive days, the longest streak of falling prices on record, according to the motor club AAA. And in some cities—Tulsa, Okla., and Kansas City and Springfield, Mo., among them—prices are beginning to fall below $2 a gallon. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/gas-prices-down-a-record-88-days-in-a-row-1419282991\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dow tops 18,000 for first time\u003c/strong>\u003cem> (Barron's)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 82 points to 18042 early on Tuesday after a stronger-than-expected reading on U.S. gross domestic product. The milestone was reached smack in the middle of the Santa Rally that only last week seemed like a remote possibility. Tuesday’s gains put the market on course for its fifth gain in a row and second all-time high in as many days. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2014/12/23/dow-jones-industrial-average-tops-18000/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Giants to take all three World Series trophies on tour\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Giants)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fans from southern Oregon clear down to the southern edge of the San Joaquin Valley will get a chance to take selfies with the World Series hardware. Tour will kick off in Sacramento on Jan. 7, 2015. \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/sf/fan_forum/trophy_tour.jsp?partnerId=ed-8871692-764414063\" target=\"_blank\">Full tour schedule\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/12/16/what-gives-the-morpho-butterfly-its-magnificent-blue/\" target=\"_blank\">What gives the morpho butterfly its magnificent blue?\u003c/a> \u003cem>(KQED Science/Deep Look)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some butterfly scales are colored by pigments. But others rely on something called “structural color” -– the production of color by nano-sized elaborate shapes that reflect and bend light. Structural color is why we perceive the Morpho butterfly, a dazzling type of blue butterfly found in South America, Mexico and Central America, as bright blue, along with peacock feathers, iridescent beetles and blue eyes. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/12/16/what-gives-the-morpho-butterfly-its-magnificent-blue/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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His alleged crime? Possession of a stolen $275 dashboard camera. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27190103/muslim-group-claims-cops-mistreated-santa-clara-man\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a> (may require subscription)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford's Class of '94 and a gender gap more powerful than the Internet\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(New York Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the history of American higher education, it is hard to top the luck and timing of the Stanford class of 1994, whose members arrived on campus barely aware of what an email was, and yet grew up to help teach the rest of the planet to shop, send money, find love and navigate an ever-expanding online universe. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/23/us/gender-gaps-stanford-94.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>California's new 'Yes means yes' law going into effect\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Capital Public Radio)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 2015 any California college or university that receives state financial aid must begin using a \"yes means yes\" approach toward sexual assault. That means both parties must give ongoing, affirmative consent during any sexual activity. \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/12/22/yes-means-yes-law-going-into-effect/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In Silicon Valley, do the jerks always win\u003c/strong>? \u003cem>(ComputerWorld)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors, Paul Graham, believes that investing in jerks (his term) is not just a kind of bad karma, but bad for business as well. ... He told Business Insider: “... We realized it had been a clever move to filter out jerks, because it made the alumni network really tight … based on what I've seen so far, the good people have the advantage over the jerks.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerworld.com/article/2862213/in-silicon-valley-do-the-jerks-always-win.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Gas prices down a record 88 days in a row\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Wall Street Journal)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This year more Americans are expected to take to the road for the holidays than ever before, and they will pay much less at the gas pump as they go. U.S. gasoline prices have declined for 88 consecutive days, the longest streak of falling prices on record, according to the motor club AAA. And in some cities—Tulsa, Okla., and Kansas City and Springfield, Mo., among them—prices are beginning to fall below $2 a gallon. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/gas-prices-down-a-record-88-days-in-a-row-1419282991\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dow tops 18,000 for first time\u003c/strong>\u003cem> (Barron's)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 82 points to 18042 early on Tuesday after a stronger-than-expected reading on U.S. gross domestic product. The milestone was reached smack in the middle of the Santa Rally that only last week seemed like a remote possibility. Tuesday’s gains put the market on course for its fifth gain in a row and second all-time high in as many days. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2014/12/23/dow-jones-industrial-average-tops-18000/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Giants to take all three World Series trophies on tour\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Giants)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fans from southern Oregon clear down to the southern edge of the San Joaquin Valley will get a chance to take selfies with the World Series hardware. Tour will kick off in Sacramento on Jan. 7, 2015. \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/sf/fan_forum/trophy_tour.jsp?partnerId=ed-8871692-764414063\" target=\"_blank\">Full tour schedule\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/12/16/what-gives-the-morpho-butterfly-its-magnificent-blue/\" target=\"_blank\">What gives the morpho butterfly its magnificent blue?\u003c/a> \u003cem>(KQED Science/Deep Look)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some butterfly scales are colored by pigments. But others rely on something called “structural color” -– the production of color by nano-sized elaborate shapes that reflect and bend light. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110633\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS2161_104423895-scr-e1378841443147.jpg\" alt=\"The explosion of a gas pipeline on Sept. 9, 2010, sparked a fire in San Bruno that destroyed 38 homes. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The explosion of a gas pipeline in San Bruno on Sept. 9, 2010, sparked a fire that destroyed 38 homes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday Sept. 4:\u003c/strong> Pacific Gas and Electric says it will appeal the $1.4 billion state penalty announced earlier this week for safety, maintenance and record-keeping violations uncovered in the wake of the September 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster. Here's the Associated Press summary of PG&E's appeal plans:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The utility said [in a federal filing Wednesday] it plans to appeal to the California Public Utilities Commission within 30 days. Wednesday's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did not list a reason for the appeal, but PG&E spokesman Greg Snapper said the utility wants the commission to take into consideration the $2.7 billion it will or already has spent on gas pipeline safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're planning to ask the commission to review yesterday's recommendation to make sure that a final penalty counts all of the company's safety investments and actions to make the gas system the best in the country,\" Snapper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said any penalty should also directly go toward public safety. By far the largest share of the $1.4 billion penalty recommended by two administrative law judges Tuesday would go directly to the state with no strings attached.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong> California regulatory judges have issued a $1.4 billion penalty against PG&E, the state's largest utility, for violations related to the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people, destroyed 38 homes and prompted national alerts about aging pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday announced the figure, reached by two administrative law judges. The CPUC said the fine was the largest safety-related penalty it had ever imposed. The commission ordered that the penalties be paid by PG&E shareholders rather than ratepayers.The Utility Reform Network, a ratepayer advocacy group, maintained PG&E could raise rates in other cases to indirectly offset the penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The penalty consists of $950 million to be paid to California’s general fund, $400 million in pipeline improvements and about $50 million to be used to implement more than 75 remedies to enhance pipeline safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E can appeal the fine. If it doesn't, or if a CPUC commissioner does not request a review, the decision will take effect in 30 days. Michael Asimow, a visiting professor of law at Stanford and an expert on administrative law, told KQED that PG&E will almost certainly appeal, and that the commission would then have to vote on the penalty before it became final. Beyond that, PG&E could request judicial review by the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/165981746\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission previously ordered PG&E to pay $635 million for pipeline modernization in the wake of the Sept. 9, 2010, blast, which was California's deadliest utility disaster in decades. That puts the total penalty for San Bruno, if it is finalized, at more than $2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the findings by the CPUC are PG&E's failure to maintain its gas transmission pipeline records. The CPUC also found that PG&E provided incorrect and misleading information to commission staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the CPUC's press release, on the number of violations the commission found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Administrative Law Judges found that in total, PG&E committed 3,798 violations of state and federal laws, rules, standards, or regulations in connection with the operations and practices of its gas transmission system pipeline. Many of these violations continued for several years, resulting in a total of 18,447,803 days in violation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'How often does a utility kill eight people or destroy 38 homes … ?'\u003cbr>\n-State Sen. Jerry Hill\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E did not say whether it would appeal the decision, but it did say it had asked the commission to \"ensure that the penalty is reasonable and proportionate and takes into consideration the company’s investments and actions to promote safety. Moreover, we believe any penalty should directly benefit public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle's Jaxon Van Derbeken writes that the commission found \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/1-4-billion-penalty-urged-for-PG-amp-E-in-San-5728611.php\" target=\"_blank\">two main areas of PG&E violations\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Administrative Judge) Yip-Kikugawa found that PG&E had routinely made flawed assumptions about its pipelines and had known its records were in disarray. She also found the utility had consistently failed to lower pipeline pressures around newly developed areas, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Administrative Law Judge Mark Wetzell oversaw the allegations stemming from the blast itself. He found PG&E had failed to properly test many of its at-risk pipelines, including the one that ruptured in San Bruno. The company relied on an inspection method for most pipelines that was incapable of detecting flawed welds, Wetzell found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working off incorrect records, PG&E had concluded that the pipeline installed in San Bruno's Crestmoor neighborhood in the 1950s had no seam welds. The line finally ruptured at a cobbled-together assortment of short pipes, many with flawed seam welds.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Van Derbeken also wrote the fine against PG&E would represent the largest ever against a U.S. utility for a gas explosion, dwarfing the $101.5 million fine against El Paso Natural Gas for an August 2000 incident in which a dozen people were killed in New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Fine Was Expected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As hefty as the fine is, it's still not as high as \u003ca href=\"http://sd13.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-07-16-pge-critics-cpuc-s-new-proposed-san-bruno-fine-pge-not-so-much\" target=\"_blank\">CPUC staff recommended\u003c/a>. That figure was $2.25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original proposal by the PUC's safety division was so controversial that PUC lawyers who worked on the case asked to be reassigned. One said that \"he could not personally continue working on the San Bruno penalty briefs because I concluded that the [safety division's] recommendations that were to be made in the briefs were unlawful and contrary to what our team had worked to accomplish in the last 2½ years.\" After an outcry from, among others, the mayor of San Bruno, the PUC's general counsel, a former attorney for PG&E, recused himself from the case and the original lawyers returned to working on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Jerry Hill, whose district includes San Bruno and has been a fervent critic of PG&E, told KQED today that the lower amount proposed by the judges is \"shocking and outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fine is not high enough, it’s not substantial enough, it’s not what was expected by PG&E to pay …. $2.25 billion was what was expected,\" he said. \"Certainly the PG&E \u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q;_ylt=AgVUOrIJg_LVfk6hevS2xmqiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTBxdGVyNzJxBHNlYwNVSCAzIERlc2t0b3AgU2VhcmNoIDEx;_ylg=X3oDMTBsdWsyY2FpBGxhbmcDZW4tVVMEcHQDMgR0ZXN0Aw--;_ylv=3?s=pcg&uhb=uhb2&type=2button&fr=uh3_finance_vert_gs\" target=\"_blank\">stockholders\u003c/a> felt this was a good penalty, their stock shot up immediately after it was released. The city of San Bruno, the staff of the PUC, (advocacy group) TURN, the Office of Ratepayer Advocates all felt that the 2.25 was the number that we would see and here the administrative law judge comes in with $1.4 billion ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The PUC) mentioned it was the largest safety-related penalty ever levied by the PUC. Well of course it was. How often does a utility kill eight people or destroy 38 homes and then damage 50 additional homes and cause such devastation to the lives of the community? That doesn't happen fortunately every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Asimow said the fine was the \"biggest civil penalty I’ve ever seen an administrative agency, either state or federal, actually charge. ... This is a huge deterrent. The PUC makes clear these penalties have to be paid by the shareholders, they’re not going to be reflected in the rate base. This represents quite a hit to the value of PG&E.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Bruno, which has long argued that the CPUC was failing in its oversight duty of PG&E, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/18/San-Bruno-Seeks-Monitor-PGE/\" target=\"_blank\">wants a court-appointed overseer for the utility\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have no faith in the [California Public Utilities Commission] to ensure safety improvements will be made,\" Mayor Jim Ruane wrote in a statement last month. \"An Independent Monitor is critical to ensure public safety and restore public confidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno sent a letter to Melinda Haag, the U.S. attorney for Northern California, asking that federal prosecutors seek appointment of an independent monitor if PG&E is convicted under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/18/San-Bruno-Seeks-Monitor-PGE/#pgeindictment\">a revised criminal indictment\u003c/a> stemming from federal criminal charges related to the San Bruno blast. Federal prosecutors indicted PG&E on 27 counts alleging the utility violated pipeline safety requirements. Another federal count alleges PG&E lied to the National Transportation Safety Board in that agency's investigation of the San Bruno blast. The company faces another $1 billion in fines if convicted of the federal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PG&E, CPUC Faulted by Federal Government \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2011 investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the San Bruno disaster was caused by a rupture in a weak weld in a pipeline that PG&E records had shown as unwelded. PG&E neglected to shut off natural gas feeding the fire until 95 minutes after the blast, an amount of time the NTSB characterized as \"excessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB also found thats CPUC exemptions of existing pipelines from a regulatory requirement for pressure testing contributed to the accident. The NTSB said such testing likely would have detected the defective weld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And PG&E \"lacked detailed and comprehensive procedures for responding to a large-scale emergency such as a transmission line break,\" the investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another probe, an independent panel formed by the CPUC found \"the explosion of the pipeline at San Bruno was a consequence of multiple weaknesses in PG&E's management and oversight of the safety of its gas transmission system.\" It also found regulators \"did not have the resources to monitor PG&E's performance\" of its gas pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said today it had \"made tremendous progress\" in fixing safety problems at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(A)ll of us at PG&E have committed ourselves to a goal to transform this company into the safest and most reliable energy provider in America. 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The CPUC also found that PG&E provided incorrect and misleading information to commission staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the CPUC's press release, on the number of violations the commission found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Administrative Law Judges found that in total, PG&E committed 3,798 violations of state and federal laws, rules, standards, or regulations in connection with the operations and practices of its gas transmission system pipeline. Many of these violations continued for several years, resulting in a total of 18,447,803 days in violation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'How often does a utility kill eight people or destroy 38 homes … ?'\u003cbr>\n-State Sen. 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The line finally ruptured at a cobbled-together assortment of short pipes, many with flawed seam welds.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Van Derbeken also wrote the fine against PG&E would represent the largest ever against a U.S. utility for a gas explosion, dwarfing the $101.5 million fine against El Paso Natural Gas for an August 2000 incident in which a dozen people were killed in New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Fine Was Expected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As hefty as the fine is, it's still not as high as \u003ca href=\"http://sd13.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-07-16-pge-critics-cpuc-s-new-proposed-san-bruno-fine-pge-not-so-much\" target=\"_blank\">CPUC staff recommended\u003c/a>. That figure was $2.25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original proposal by the PUC's safety division was so controversial that PUC lawyers who worked on the case asked to be reassigned. One said that \"he could not personally continue working on the San Bruno penalty briefs because I concluded that the [safety division's] recommendations that were to be made in the briefs were unlawful and contrary to what our team had worked to accomplish in the last 2½ years.\" After an outcry from, among others, the mayor of San Bruno, the PUC's general counsel, a former attorney for PG&E, recused himself from the case and the original lawyers returned to working on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E can't afford to pay out $2.55 billion to victims of the San Bruno gas line fire, the utility's CEO said on Thursday, disputing an analyst's estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/pge1.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/pge1.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"pg&e\" width=\"68\" height=\"76\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74853\">\u003c/a>At a press conference, CEO Anthony Earley dismissed the figure, which, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/PG-E-can-handle-big-fine-report-3826045.php\">San Francisco Chronicle,\u003c/a> came from a consultant hired by the Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has no way to raise that much money, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As an investor would you give me money that I was going to turn around and have to give away with no possibility of A - getting a return on that or - B - even getting that money back?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said PG&E has set aside $200 million to cover fines related to the pipeline blast and fire that killed eight people in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility has already started paying some people affected by the accident, and a few details surfaced on Thursday, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_21429526/san-mateo-county-court-mistakenly-posts-secret-san\">San Mateo Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper reported that confidential documents inadvertently posted on the San Mateo County court website show PG&E agreed to pay $1.8 million to a teenage girl severely burned by the September 2010 blast, plus nearly $677,700 to cover her attorneys' fees and $19,400 for medical expenses.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38616\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/SanBrunoPipe.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/SanBrunoPipe.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SanBrunoPipe\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38616\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Eric Risberg-Pool/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Update 2:25 p.m. The NTSB has posted the Executive Summary of its Pipeline Accident Report, which includes 28 findings. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2011/san_bruno_ca/index.html\">\u003cstrong>Read it here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB says this under a section called Probable Cause:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(1) inadequate quality assurance and quality control in 1956 during its Line 132 relocation project, which allowed the installation of a substandard and poorly welded pipe section with a visible seam weld flaw that, over time grew to a critical size, causing the pipeline to rupture during a pressure increase stemming from poorly planned electrical work at the Milpitas Terminal; and \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(2) inadequate pipeline integrity management program, which failed to detect and repair or remove the defective pipe section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributing to the accident were the California Public Utility Commission’s (CPUC) and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s exemptions of existing pipelines from the regulatory requirement for pressure testing, which likely would have detected the installation defects. 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Many of the recommendations are for new regulations or the toughening of old regulations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Radio’s Cy Musiker will be talking with South Bay Congresswoman Jackie Speier about the report at 5:30 p.m. Speier, who sent out many \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/repspeier\">tweets\u003c/a> from the hearing today, has been a fierce critic of PG&E. You can listen to that live on the radio or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">right here online\u003c/a>. Check here for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/radionews/\">archive\u003c/a> of the discussion afterward.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier posts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Citizen has a really good wrap-up of the NTSB findings in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of today’s hearing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To recap, the five members of the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously that PG&E’s deficient pipeline management system – from the 1950s until the present time – was the “probable cause” of the Sept. 9, 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster, which killed eight people. Deficient oversight by state and federal regulators were “contributing causes,” the board ruled. PG&E’s response to the disaster and its lack of emergency preparedness increased the severity of the accident, the board ruled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other findings adopted unanimously by Board: San Bruno’s 2008 sewer project did not contribute to the accident; The pipeline didn’t meet 1950s standards; The pipeline fracture began along an deficient weld; PG&E lacked a comprehensive plan for responding to such a disaster; The 95 minutes that PG&E took to shut off the flow of gas to the rupture was exceessive; Local emergency workers and agencies coordinated their response to the disaster well; PG&E’s post-accident drug and alcohol testing program was inadequate; There is no basis to exempt old pipelines from modern inspection rules; PG&E’s gas transmission integrity program was deficient and ineffective; And the disaster was the result of an “organizational accident” – ie, there was no single cause of the accident, instead it was the culmination of systemic failures within PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>Read more here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s a little taste of the kind of shellacking PG&E took today. After rattling off a welter of systemic problems delineated in the NTSB final report, board member Robert Sumwelt sounds incredulous when he asks one of the investigators on the panel, “how does an organization get to the point where they have all these deficiencies?” Listen below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Board member Robert Sumwelt, bemused by sheer number of PG&E organizational deficiencies board found\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3|titles=ntsbsumwelt]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:05 p.m.\u003c/em> Over the past year, the San Francisco Chronicle has done a lot of terrific investigative reporting on this story. Here’s reporter Jaxon Vanderbeken summarizing some of what the paper discovered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=1134718001001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are two recent reports by Van Derbeken worth reading:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/28/MN6C1KSGPC.DTL&ao=2\">PG&E missed opportunity to head off the disaster\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in fall 2009 that an inspection crew had stumbled onto cracks and defective welds on the San Bruno gas transmission line near where the pipe ruptured at a similarly flawed weld 11 months later, but failed to check for such problems elsewhere on the line, company e-mails and documents reviewed by The Chronicle show.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/21/MN8Q1KIKM6.DTL\">PG&E knew of vulnerable welds in 2008, memo shows\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in 2008 that the San Bruno gas line that later exploded and the network of smaller pipes it fed had multiple potentially at-risk welds, but decided to spike the system’s pressure so it could avoid the possibility of costly inspections, according to a company memo turned over to federal investigators.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Considering the challenges of the prolonged fire fueled by natural gas, the emergency response was well coordinated and effectively managed by local responders.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the grandfathering of older pipelines had not been permitted since 1961 by the California Public Utilities Commission and since 1970 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Line 132 would have undergone a hydrostatic pressure test that would likely have exposed the defective pipe that led to this accident.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>There is no safety justification for the grandfather clause exempting pre-1970 pipelines from the requirement for postconstruction hydrostatic pressure testing.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The PG&E gas transmission integrity management program was deficient and ineffective.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The ineffective enforcement posture of the California Public Utilities Commission permitted PG&E’s organizational failures to continue over many years.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe NTSB has concluded a nearly year-long investigation (final report should be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2010/sanbruno_ca.html\">posted here\u003c/a> later) into the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, and PG&E is coming under a lot of fire from the panel presenting the results today. From NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman’s opening salvo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today you’re going to hear about flawed pipe, flawed operations, and flawed oversight. It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst, it was a question of when.” (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbopen.mp3\">Audio of that here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolconnection.net/capcon/ntsb/ntsb.htm\">\u003cstrong>Watch the NTSB hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:48 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">live-blogging\u003c/a> the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s Hersman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hersman/daph110830o.html\">opening statement\u003c/a>, and it’s a dilly. For those looking for a federally sanctioned catharsis to their frustration and/or despair over San Bruno, this might provide a dose. Here’s Hersman’s closing slam of both PG&E and its state regular, the California Public Utilities Commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This accident represents a snapshot in time, and we recognize that individuals in the system work hard every day – at PG&E, CPUC, and PHMSA – to keep our pipelines safe. But good intentions did not prevent this accident from happening, Opportunities were missed that could have – and should have – prevented this tragedy. We acknowledge that in the intervening months since the accident, much has been learned and commitments to change have been made. But we’re here today to talk about what led to the rupture on September 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear troubling revelations … about a company that exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight and government agencies that placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now that this tragedy began years ago with PG&E’s 1956 installation of a woefully inadequate pipe. It was compounded over the years by a litany of failures — including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first NTSB investigation involving PG&E. In August 1981, following a pipeline rupture in San Francisco, it took PG&E more than nine hours to shut down the gas flow. The NTSB found inadequate recordkeeping as a contributing cause in that event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the investigation of a 2008 house explosion caused by PG&aamp;E’s gas distribution pipeline in Rancho Cordova, California, NTSB identified similar issues, including lack of quality control during pipe installation and inadequate emergency response procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it’s Sept. 2010. Another explosion. Eight people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear about flawed pipe … flawed operations … flawed oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst. It was a question of when.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, on KQED Radio’s Forum at 9 a.m., an hour-long discussion on the NTSB final report. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">Listen live here\u003c/a>, or to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108300900\">archived show\u003c/a> later in the day. Guests include Congresswoman Jackie Speier, San Bruno Mayor\u003cbr>\nJim Ruane, and San Jose Mercury News reporter and managing editor of KQED Quest Paul Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, live \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23sanbruno\">#sanbruno tweets\u003c/a> below, including a bevy from Congresswoman Jackie Speier, whose district includes San Bruno and who has been extremely critical of PG&E, and a couple from the company itself. A sampling of this study in alternate realities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/RepSpeier/status/108550285483458560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/PGE4Me/status/108249193524629504 \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier posts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Citizen has a really good wrap-up of the NTSB findings in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of today’s hearing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To recap, the five members of the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously that PG&E’s deficient pipeline management system – from the 1950s until the present time – was the “probable cause” of the Sept. 9, 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster, which killed eight people. Deficient oversight by state and federal regulators were “contributing causes,” the board ruled. PG&E’s response to the disaster and its lack of emergency preparedness increased the severity of the accident, the board ruled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other findings adopted unanimously by Board: San Bruno’s 2008 sewer project did not contribute to the accident; The pipeline didn’t meet 1950s standards; The pipeline fracture began along an deficient weld; PG&E lacked a comprehensive plan for responding to such a disaster; The 95 minutes that PG&E took to shut off the flow of gas to the rupture was exceessive; Local emergency workers and agencies coordinated their response to the disaster well; PG&E’s post-accident drug and alcohol testing program was inadequate; There is no basis to exempt old pipelines from modern inspection rules; PG&E’s gas transmission integrity program was deficient and ineffective; And the disaster was the result of an “organizational accident” – ie, there was no single cause of the accident, instead it was the culmination of systemic failures within PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>Read more here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s a little taste of the kind of shellacking PG&E took today. After rattling off a welter of systemic problems delineated in the NTSB final report, board member Robert Sumwelt sounds incredulous when he asks one of the investigators on the panel, “how does an organization get to the point where they have all these deficiencies?” Listen below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Board member Robert Sumwelt, bemused by sheer number of PG&E organizational deficiencies board found\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Here’s reporter Jaxon Vanderbeken summarizing some of what the paper discovered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=1134718001001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are two recent reports by Van Derbeken worth reading:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/28/MN6C1KSGPC.DTL&ao=2\">PG&E missed opportunity to head off the disaster\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in fall 2009 that an inspection crew had stumbled onto cracks and defective welds on the San Bruno gas transmission line near where the pipe ruptured at a similarly flawed weld 11 months later, but failed to check for such problems elsewhere on the line, company e-mails and documents reviewed by The Chronicle show.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/21/MN8Q1KIKM6.DTL\">PG&E knew of vulnerable welds in 2008, memo shows\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in 2008 that the San Bruno gas line that later exploded and the network of smaller pipes it fed had multiple potentially at-risk welds, but decided to spike the system’s pressure so it could avoid the possibility of costly inspections, according to a company memo turned over to federal investigators.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Considering the challenges of the prolonged fire fueled by natural gas, the emergency response was well coordinated and effectively managed by local responders.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the grandfathering of older pipelines had not been permitted since 1961 by the California Public Utilities Commission and since 1970 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Line 132 would have undergone a hydrostatic pressure test that would likely have exposed the defective pipe that led to this accident.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>There is no safety justification for the grandfather clause exempting pre-1970 pipelines from the requirement for postconstruction hydrostatic pressure testing.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The PG&E gas transmission integrity management program was deficient and ineffective.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The ineffective enforcement posture of the California Public Utilities Commission permitted PG&E’s organizational failures to continue over many years.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe NTSB has concluded a nearly year-long investigation (final report should be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2010/sanbruno_ca.html\">posted here\u003c/a> later) into the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, and PG&E is coming under a lot of fire from the panel presenting the results today. From NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman’s opening salvo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today you’re going to hear about flawed pipe, flawed operations, and flawed oversight. It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst, it was a question of when.” (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbopen.mp3\">Audio of that here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolconnection.net/capcon/ntsb/ntsb.htm\">\u003cstrong>Watch the NTSB hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:48 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">live-blogging\u003c/a> the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s Hersman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hersman/daph110830o.html\">opening statement\u003c/a>, and it’s a dilly. For those looking for a federally sanctioned catharsis to their frustration and/or despair over San Bruno, this might provide a dose. Here’s Hersman’s closing slam of both PG&E and its state regular, the California Public Utilities Commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This accident represents a snapshot in time, and we recognize that individuals in the system work hard every day – at PG&E, CPUC, and PHMSA – to keep our pipelines safe. But good intentions did not prevent this accident from happening, Opportunities were missed that could have – and should have – prevented this tragedy. We acknowledge that in the intervening months since the accident, much has been learned and commitments to change have been made. But we’re here today to talk about what led to the rupture on September 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear troubling revelations … about a company that exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight and government agencies that placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now that this tragedy began years ago with PG&E’s 1956 installation of a woefully inadequate pipe. It was compounded over the years by a litany of failures — including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first NTSB investigation involving PG&E. In August 1981, following a pipeline rupture in San Francisco, it took PG&E more than nine hours to shut down the gas flow. The NTSB found inadequate recordkeeping as a contributing cause in that event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the investigation of a 2008 house explosion caused by PG&aamp;E’s gas distribution pipeline in Rancho Cordova, California, NTSB identified similar issues, including lack of quality control during pipe installation and inadequate emergency response procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it’s Sept. 2010. Another explosion. Eight people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear about flawed pipe … flawed operations … flawed oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst. It was a question of when.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, on KQED Radio’s Forum at 9 a.m., an hour-long discussion on the NTSB final report. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">Listen live here\u003c/a>, or to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108300900\">archived show\u003c/a> later in the day. Guests include Congresswoman Jackie Speier, San Bruno Mayor\u003cbr>\nJim Ruane, and San Jose Mercury News reporter and managing editor of KQED Quest Paul Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, live \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23sanbruno\">#sanbruno tweets\u003c/a> below, including a bevy from Congresswoman Jackie Speier, whose district includes San Bruno and who has been extremely critical of PG&E, and a couple from the company itself. A sampling of this study in alternate realities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/RepSpeier/status/108550285483458560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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