Articles by
Jaxon Van Derbeken
Chronicle: PG&E e-mails may prove pivotal in probe of regulator
By
Jaxon Van Derbeken
In their search warrant affidavit, state investigators said that among the items they were looking for was evidence related to the Kern County alternative energy plant known as Hydrogen Energy California, or HECA. It would convert coal and petroleum refinery waste into power and fertilizer and inject greenhouse gases into nearby depleted oil fields.
San Francisco Chronicle: Agents search Michael Peevey’s home in PG&E judge-shopping case
By
Jaxon Van Derbeken
In an e-mail to Brown in January 2014, Cherry dangled PG&E’s backing for CPUC Chairman Peevey’s pet project — a $4 billion coal-gasification plant planned in Kern County — as a possible reward for the company getting its preferred judge.
