A federal judge has sentenced Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to pay a $3-million fine and undertake a compliance and ethics monitoring program for criminal actions related to the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, Calif., that killed eight people and injured several dozen others, the U.S. Dept. of Justice says.
Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Jan. 26 imposed the maximum fine for each of several counts of violating the federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act and for one count of obstruction of justice.