PG&E Charged by U.S. Over Fatal 2010 Pipeline Explosion - Bloomberg PG&E was charged in a grand jury indictment filed yesterday in
federal court in San Francisco with knowingly and willfully violating
the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act by failing to test and assess
unstable pipelines to determine whether they could fail. The company was
also charged with keeping incomplete and inaccurate records about the
pipeline that exploded.