Sempra Energy

5% rate hike OKd for Southern California Gas customers

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Almost 21 million residential customers of Southern California Gas Co. will see their monthly bills increase by about 5%, or $1.94, now that state utility regulators have approved a four-year plan to guarantee revenue collected by the nation's largest...

All-Star Lawyer Goes to Bat for Dodger Fans

2011-06-23 00:00:00

A funny thing happened on the way to Tom Girardi’s Major League Baseball career. He was riding the bus to Albuquerque with dreams of joining a farm club and making it to the big leagues. The bus pulled into a parking lot at a diner, and Girardi went...

Proposition 23: Backers were outspent, out-organized (UPDATED)

2010-11-03 04:33:13

DWP board hires Villaraigosa nominee pending L.A. City Council approval

2010-12-20 16:33:43

Duvall reports dinner tabs paid by lobbyists, but none by woman he bragged about [Updated]

2009-10-13 16:33:38

FBI clears former Assemblyman Mike Duvall

2009-11-02 16:33:38

'Too big to fail' gets even bigger

2010-02-16 16:33:48

PUC member's donation request raises questions

2008-02-20 00:00:00

Public Utilities Commissioner Timothy A. Simon solicited donations from companies he regulates to help pay for a nonprofit conference on green energy hosted last month by one of his political patrons, documents and interviews show. Two weeks after the...

Donor money talks, often in a whisper

2007-12-29 00:00:00

A massage for a lawmaker's wife. Circus tickets for his kids. Keys to a mountain cabin for the weekend. A donation to his favorite charity or one that flies him across the world on an "educational" trip. There are many ways to get a politician's...

Justices examine energy crunch

2008-02-20 00:00:00

Supreme Court justices on Tuesday heard a recounting of what lawyers called "the worst electricity market crisis in history." And they heard the story of how Enron Corp. and others helped create the spike in electricity prices in California and the West...

Schoolyard secrets

2007-06-27 00:00:00

THE ARREST this month of a reporter, accused of trespassing for taking soil samples at a pesticide-contaminated Paramus, N.J., middle school, is a powerful reminder of our tolerance for official secrecy about environmental health risks at schools....

Tankless water heaters don't always reduce energy bills

2008-08-16 00:00:00

STEVE BROWNELL has a dim view of his tankless water heater, and he's in denial about his utility bills. Three years ago, the Irvine resident installed the heater in his 3,000-square-foot, single-story home with the goal that the unit would pay for itself...

Debra Reed, president and chief financial officer of Sempra Energy Utilities, at her office in San Diego .

2008-09-27 11:10:52

San Diego Gas & Electric and its parent company, Sempra Energy, wants to erect transmission towers, some over 100 foot high, on its easement through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Here, smaller poles and wires on the route cut through the Yaqui Well camping and hiking area.

2008-04-23 09:40:17

San Diego Gas & Electric and its parent company, Sempra Energy, want to erect industrial towers, some more than 100 feet high, on an easement through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Here, smaller poles and wires cut through the Yaqui Well camping and hiking area.

2008-04-18 16:59:40