Regulators are accusing one of California’s largest public utilities of fudging safety data records shortly after the utility company was fined millions of dollars for a massive natural gas explosion in San Francisco.

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A California Public Utilities Commission investigation found that the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. lacked enough employees to fulfill requests to document natural gas pipelines.

PG&E pushed supervisors to complete the work, leading staff to falsify data from 2012 to 2017. [read more]