Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. PG&E received approval from state regulators in 2007 to charge customers $4.9 million so the utility could replace a portion of the same pipeline that exploded last week, but then never completed the work, the Chron reports. The utility spent the money elsewhere and is now asking the California Public Utilities Commission to charge customers another $5 million to replace the same section of pipeline. PG&E also asked the PUC last year to charge customers $13 million to replace another section of the same pipeline that incinerated a neighborhood and killed at least four people.