The California Public Utilities Commission announced today that the California State Senate has officially confirmed the agency’s two new commissioners. Governor Jerry Brown appointed Michael…
PG&E has filed a barrage of motions in federal court in San Francisco, seeking dismissal of all of the 28 criminal charges it faces for…
An investigation into whether corporate culture and governance at PG&E is responsible for persistent safety problems at the gas and electric utility company was launched…
The California Public Utilities Commission is considering an investigation into whether PG&E’s culture and governance have contributed to safety issues including the deadly San Bruno…
A committee of the embattled California Public Utilities Commission began considering at a meeting in San Francisco Wednesday how to reform the agency’s procedures in…
A California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge in San Francisco today recommended a $7.3 million fine for an Uber subsidiary for failing to report…
A transit company offering a high-end private bus service in San Francisco abruptly halted service this week in response to a cease and desist letter…
The California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco today imposed a record $1.6 billion penalty on PG&E Co. for a fatal pipeline explosion in San…
Four and one-half years after a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno, the California Public Utilities Commission is set to decide in San Francisco Thursday…
San Bruno officials announced today they support a proposed increased $1.6 billion penalty and fine for PG&E Co. for a fatal 2010 pipeline explosion in…
California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker today proposed increasing to $1.6 billion a penalty imposed on PG&E for safety violations related to a fatal…
PG&E filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday to build roughly 25,000 new electric vehicle charging stations across Northern and Central…
The California Public Utilities Commission today released roughly 65,000 email messages exchanged between PG&E Co. and agency officials between 2010 and 2014 as ordered because…
PG&E Co. was ordered by an administrative law judge today to give the city of San Bruno by Jan. 30 almost all of 65,000 emails…
Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed a new president of the California Public Utilities Commission as well as a new commissioner on the embattled panel, which…
PG&E Co. today made public 12 new sets of email messages that it said appear to show violations of rules against back-channel communications with regulators…
The California Public Utilities Commission at a meeting in San Francisco today imposed a $1.05 million fine as well as an additional potentially multimillion penalty…
A former PG&E senior executive who lost his job following the disclosure of inappropriate emails to regulators will receive a $1.1 million severance payment, according…
California Public Utilities Commissioner Mike Florio announced today that he would recuse himself from proceedings involving PG&E after coming under fire for communications with PG&E…
“Californians should rejoice” over the decision of California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey to not seek reappointment to a new term amid allegations of…
State Sen. Jerry Hill announced today that he will seek to have the state legislature remove California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey over allegations…
PG&E released a second batch of private emails between its staff and the California Public Utilities Commission today and said it believes both sets of…
A group of protesters gathered on the steps in front of the California Public Utilities Commission’s building in San Francisco this morning demanding the removal…
Low-income Bay Area residents sounded off on a PG&E proposal to lower electric rates for the biggest electric consumers and raise rates for low-income customers….
San Mateo County politicians blasted the California Public Utilities Commission this morning as they called upon Attorney General Kamala Harris to open an investigation into…
Inappropriate email exchanges regarding regulatory proceedings led to the ouster of high-ranking PG&E and California Public Utilities Commission employees today. CPUC President Michael Peevey’s chief…
San Bruno officials called on Gov. Jerry Brown today to remove California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey from office, alleging that recently disclosed emails…
State regulators are warning “ridesharing” companies such as Uber and Lyft that they could be shut down if drivers continue to operate at airports without…
Summon, one of several companies in the burgeoning ridesharing industry in the state, was the first to be issued an operating permit by the California…
The California Public Utilities Commission announced today that its general counsel, Frank Lindh, is resigning to go into private law practice. Lindh became the San…
The California Public Utilities Commission today welcomed the creation of an umbrella group to look at insurance issues for online rideshare services, but noted it…
Starting in 2015, there will be a new “628” area code in the Bay Area as more telephone numbers are requested. The California Public Utilities…
PG&E Corp.’s chief executive officer told California public utilities commissioners Monday that a belated and allegedly misleading correction of information on a San Carlos natural…
Two leaders of the California Public Utilities Commission assured legislators at a hearing in San Francisco today that the agency is doing its best to…
A state senate subcommittee will meet Monday in San Francisco to hear testimony on the California Public Utilities Commission’s efforts to improve utility safety in…
A California Public Utilities Commission member today proposed a fining PG&E Co. $17.25 million—about two and one-half times the amount proposed by a hearing officer—for…
The California Public Utilities Commission at a meeting in San Francisco today adopted what it called the nation’s first comprehensive set of safety rules for…
A state administrative law judge in San Francisco today proposed fining PG&E Co. $6.75 million for delaying and then mischaracterizing its correction of significant errors…
The California Public Utilities Commission today ordered PG&E to keep a disputed natural gas pipeline in San Carlos out of service until its safety is…
The California Public Utilities Commission today unanimously approved implementing regulations for online-enabled rideshare services—making California the first state to legalize transportation options such as Lyft…
