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EPA adds safeguards to spotlight conflicts on scientific panels
May 06, 2013
May 3, 2013 - The Environmental Protection Agency announced new safeguards Friday to prevent conflicts of interest or bias from tainting its science, including...

Chemical Industry Clout Delays EPA Regulation of Hexavalent Chromium
March 29, 2013
Contaminated Jug of Water at Hinkley Meeting (Source: PBS) March 27, 2013 - The hit 2000 film Erin Bro...

Briefs: PG&E venting gas on Magnolia in Yuba County
January 02, 2013
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be venting natural gas along Magnolia Road in Yuba County today from a section of pipe being worked on. Work will not interrupt...

EPA unaware of industry ties on cancer review panel
February 13, 2013
February 13, 2013 - In September 2010, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency came to a startling conclusion: Even a small amount of a chemical...

PG&E to Pay $70 million to Help San Bruno Recover
March 12, 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has agreed to pay $70 million in restitution to aid the city of San Bruno's recovery from a 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight...

Big rig incident forces temporary closure of Highway 99 in Butte County
January 04, 2013
The Department of Transportation is alerting motorists that State Highway 99 is closed at Nelson Road just south of Chico due to a big rig incident and downed...

February 25, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
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Kai's hatchet did not stop attacker, PG&E worker testifies
February 22, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee testified Friday that it was the intervention of fellow employees, not the hatchet of hitchhiker Caleb'' Kai'' McGillivary, that kept a...

' God pulled me through,' says PG&E worker hit by car in Fresno
February 06, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
Rayshawn Neely, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. worker injured last week when a car struck him, is grateful to be alive. Read comments ...

Briefs: PG&E venting gas on Magnolia in Yuba County
January 02, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be venting natural gas along Magnolia Road in Yuba County today from a section of pipe being worked on. Work will not interrupt service to...

Erin Brockovich: the real- life unhappy ending of Hinkley, California, and a tale...
March 14, 2013 | Boing Boing
'' Although residents there won their lawsuit against the polluter, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., there' s still a debate over whether the compound causes cancer in drinking water ...

February 25, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
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Kai's hatchet did not stop attacker, PG&E worker testifies
February 22, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee testified Friday that it was the intervention of fellow employees, not the hatchet of hitchhiker Caleb'' Kai'' McGillivary, that kept a...

' God pulled me through,' says PG&E worker hit by car in Fresno
February 06, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
Rayshawn Neely, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. worker injured last week when a car struck him, is grateful to be alive. Read comments ...

Gnomes to stay on California utility poles for now
January 29, 2013 | ReviewJournal.com
OAKLAND, Calif. - Small paintings of gnomes that have popped up on utility poles have become a community sensation in Oakland, prompting Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to say ...

Ripon school gets award
January 24, 2013 | Recordnet News Headlines
RIPON - Colony Oak Elementary School today will receive $10,000 from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to complete a campuswide solar-panel project. ...