AUDIT: PG&E Squandered Ratepayers' $50 Million Earmarked For Safety

June 4, 2013 Subscribe · Forward AUDIT: PG&E Squandered Ratepayers' $50 Million Earmarked For Safety SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. did not use more than $50 million it collected from ratepayers that was meant to improve its gas pipeline network in the decade leading up to a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb, an audit shows. From 1999 to 2010, the utility regularly failed to use all the money to fix and maintain small gas distribution lines that deliver natural gas to homes and businesses, according to the audit by Leawood, Kan.-based Overland Consulting for the California Public Utilities Commission. Continue reading... 'I JUST LOOK ILLEGAL' Lawyer In Richmond Gang Rape Case Makes Outrageous Argument It's Coming... Sacramento Teen Swept Over Yosemite Waterfall Bad News For Medical Marijuana Troubling News About Soup Kitchen Meals LOOK: California License Plates Just Got A Lot Cooler Bad News For Medical Marijuana LOOK: California License Plates Just Got A Lot Cooler Troubling News About Soup Kitchen Meals Boy Scouts May Lose Nonprofit Status In Major State TARUN WADHWA Using Augmented Reality to Create Crowdsourced Art Augmented reality has come along way in the last few years, and while it still has a long way to go, we are starting to see it enter the mainstream discourse. However, there has been far less discussion of what the larger societal impact of these types of devices might be. Continue reading... CARLY SCHWARTZ San Francisco Bucket List: What I Did With My Final Month in My Favorite Place (PHOTOS) There's a lot packed into those glorious 49 square miles, and my to-do list ranged from the basic (how could I have never been to Alcatraz?) to the ambitious (biking the Wiggle every day obviously means I'm ready to tackle the Marin Headlands) to the outside-the-box (energy healing is the perfect antidote to moving anxiety, right?). Continue reading... ERIC W. SANDERSON Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs EXCERPT Car companies, rubber companies, oil companies, and their advertisers saturate the landscape with the useful myth: Americans wouldn't be American if we didn't drive. Our chariots of freedom chain us to the politics, economics, and perils of oil. Continue reading... MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL And the Butterflies Will Come I used to commute along what some call the most beautiful highway in America, with the Santa Cruz Mountains on the one side and the golden hills on the other. But listening to Weiss tell me about his work here, I realize I have never quite seen this place before. Continue reading... OSCAR RAYMUNDO How Female Indie Artists Are Redefining Pop Stardom If a male artist goes from YouTube sensation to being courted by every major label, he is in charge. But if an emerging female artist gets asked to contribute to the Girls soundtrack, she must be a sell-out, a puppet, mangled to sell something the corporations already own. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003