San Bruno Explosion Prompts Survey of All Utility's Pipes

California regulators said today they will order Pacific Gas and Electric to survey all its natural gas lines in the state, after a massive gas line explosion in suburban San Francisco devastated a neighborhood and left eight people dead. As part of the order from the state's Public Utilities Commission, PG&E must run leak surveys on all natural gas lines, with priority given to higher-pressure pipelines and to lines in areas of high population density. (Read more)