William H. Orrick | cand.uscourts.gov
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A San Francisco man who wants Pacific Gas & Electric Company to clean up a portion of the city’s waterfront will be able to make a key part of his case.
That’s because federal judge William Orrick denied the company’s motion to dismiss on April 22, rejecting arguments that plaintiff Dan Clarke’s Clean Water Act was filed much past the statute of limitations.
Orrick has already dismissed parts of Clarke’s case and let other parts continue. His lawsuit, filed by lawyers at Gross & Klein, centers on a manufactured gas plant – the Cannery MGP.
Lobo Fire (Nevada County)
Pocket Fire (Sonoma County)
Sulphur Fire (Lake County)
Tubbs Fire (Sonoma and Napa Counties)
Many of the questions Action News Now asked the FVT concerned finances and transparency. Action News Now was told on Tuesday that a detailed accounting of all the Trust expenses through December 31, 2020, will be filed with the Court later in the month of April, along with an update on claims payments.
As of Monday, the FVT reports that 7,364 Preliminary Payments have been issued for a total of $95,523,500.
Pro-Rata Payments of 30% of approved and signed-off claims have also been reported. 183 Pro-Rata Payments have been issued to fire survivors so far, totaling $45,816,527. The average of each of the 183 payments is $250,363.
PG&E: Several execs captured pay raises in 2020, SEC docs show
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
Apr. 9 Several top
PG&E executives harvested hefty increases in their pay during 2020, a year in which the company emerged from bankruptcy and caused a fatal wildfire in
Shasta County, a regulatory filing on Thursday shows.
William Smith, who was interim
PG&E chief executive officer during 2020, captured
$6.17 million in pay, as measured by his total direct compensation, according to a company filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Smith took over as interim and temporary CEO in
June 2020.
PG&E, a holding company whose principal operating unit is utility behemoth
PG&E Slapped with Felony Criminal Charges Over 2019 Kincade Fire
The Sonoma County district attorney has charged PG&E with 33 criminal counts including five felonies in light of findings that their transmission lines did cause the Kincade Fire.
The names of all of the wildfires of the last few years kind of blend together, so first a reminder that the 2019 Kincade Fire had been Sonoma County’s largest-ever wildfire prior to the LNU Lightning Complex fires last year. And about two days into the Kincade fire, we received the bombshell revelation that a PG&E transmission tower malfunctioned” at the very spot where the blaze began, making it pretty likely that PG&E equipment caused the fire. A Cal Fire investigation completed July found that oh yes, PG&E equipment caused the fire.
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The Fresno Bee
Apr. 1 A new standalone power system that produces energy with solar panels, batteries and generators will be operational near Yosemite National Park soon the first of its kind owned by Pacific Gas & Electric Company with the aim of reducing wildfires.
It comes after PG&E was ordered to make changes after its equipment sparked wildfires that killed people. The latest: PG&E equipment ignited the deadly Zogg Fire in Northern California six months ago when a tree fell on a transmission line, state investigators announced last week.
The new power grid a network that delivers electricity from a centralized hybrid source is being constructed in Briceburg, a small community along the Merced River and Highway 140 in a steep canyon leading to Yosemite.