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Did Kamala Harris Spike PUC Investigation To Help Her Democratic Friends?

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 11:30
Kamala Harris with PG&E Lobbyist Willie Brown

Why has CA Attorney General Kamala Harris issued search warrants for the offices of utilities and their regulators in a PUC corruption scandal and then not followed through? Could it be because she doesn't want to hurt powerful Democratic friends? That is what a KPBS investigative reporter is exploring.

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PG&E's Gift That Keeps On Giving

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 15:33

A century ago, Governor Hiram Johnson declared that publicly-traded electric and gas utilities had taken over California state government.

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Mr. Picker Stars On Wall Street As Peevey's Understudy

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 18:14

When PUC commissioner Michael Picker, a former senior aide to Governor Jerry Brown, was appointed PUC president by Brown, he claimed that he would make the agency “fair, open, accessible and effective” in the wake of scandal-tainted Michael Peevey’s retirement.

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What’s Behind The Sundown Showdown Over Natural Gas Drilling At Porter Ranch In Assembly?

Submitted by Jamie Court on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 07:39

 Today So Cal Gas, and other proponents of the aging natural gas storage infrastructure, face off against Senator Pavley’s proposed moratorium on natural gas drilling at a very- late-in-the-day hearing in the Assembly Utilities Committee ( 3 PM start  for SB 380 and other bills).  It’s hardly a made-for-media moment, scheduled post-newspaper print deadline.  And Pavley’s enemies have not shown their true faces, but their powerful grip has been felt.

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The People v. CPUC’s Michael Picker

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 14:33

The president of the California Public Utilities Commission secretly meets in a Warsaw hotel room with a Southern California Edison executive and eventually ratepayers wind up paying 70 percent of the $4.7 billion tab to shutter the defective San Onofre nuclear power plant. Does that president sound like Michael Peevey, now under criminal investigation for alleged ex-parte communications, obstruction of justice, and other transgressions?

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Demanding a Public Probe Into Porter Ranch Blowout

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Mon, 02/08/2016 - 16:16
The largest methane gas leak in California history began more than three months ago and has driven residents with nosebleeds, vomiting, rashes, and dizziness out of 5,000 homes. Shouldn't we know why, how and who caused the mess by now? 
 

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