A house fire in the Upper Haight neighborhood Tuesday afternoon might have been caused by an illegal marijuana-growing operation.
But before you say “not surprising (it is the Haight, after all),” police at the scene of the 1:30 p.m. blaze on Page Street near Ashbury Street said grow operations are not common there.
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By:
Jason Dearen
11/19/12 9:32 PM
California has sold out of the first pollution permits issued at an inaugural auction as part of a landmark offensive against greenhouse gases, regulators said Monday, adding that the sale went smoothly.
The effort to curtail carbon emissions involved the sale of 23.1 million permits — each allowing for the release of 1 ton of carbon — for $10.09 apiece, the California Air Resources Board said.
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Legislation might put an end to the so-called revolving door of employees between the California Public Utilities Commission and the utilities it regulates, state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said Tuesday.
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The utility company responsible for last year’s deadly pipeline explosion on a quiet suburban street in San Bruno announced Tuesday it’s claiming financial liability.
However, residents affected by the blast say that’s not enough, and many still think PG&E needs to pay for what it did to the neighborhood. Residents said they plan to hold the company responsible for punitive damages by pursuing their original lawsuits.
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A 5,300-pound bell that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and is worth an estimated $75,000 was stolen last weekend by recycling thieves probably hoping to scrap it for about $10,000.
The theft of this historic bell from St. Mary’s Cathedral is just the latest in a rash of alarming metal thefts across The City. The Police Department recently launched a special investigations unit specifically to combat such thefts.
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In an all-day hearing, federal investigators summed up what many residents of San Bruno assumed months ago: PG&E is to blame for a massive pipeline blast that leveled a neighborhood and killed eight people one year ago.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators concluded the powerful utility company had several opportunities to avert the deadly Sept. 9 explosion, but failed to do so. The tragedy was made worse by PG&E’s poor response after the disaster.
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PG&E and state regulators were more focused on “checking boxes” than on actually analyzing the safety of their system and learning from problems and mistakes, according to a strongly worded report released by an independent review panel Thursday.
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When news spread that a quiet San Bruno neighborhood was going up in flames, emergency officials from more than a dozen cities and three counties immediately came together in a massive, coordinated effort to save lives and homes.And that effort wasn’t cheap.
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San Bruno residents will have a chance to tell regulators how California’s gas pipeline rules should be changed to prevent tragedies like the deadly explosion that rocked their town last September.
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The second power outage in one day left more than 4,400 San Francisco Pacific Gas & Electric customers without power Friday night.PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi said the outage, which began at 8:28 p.m., originally affected 5,050 customers near Noe Valley.Two PG&E workers arrived in the affected area at about 8:50 p.m., Guidi said, and were working to fully restore service but had yet to identify the source of the outage.
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