(AP) - California's biggest utility has agreed to a nearly $87 million settlement in an insider-dealing case with state regulators.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Wednesday revealed terms of its negotiated settlement with state utility regulators and others.
The case grew out of probes into a 2010 PG&E gas-line explosion that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno. Some of the thousands of emails released showed PG&E officials and regulators with the California Public Utilities Commission wining and dining each other, and privately discussing public business.
The settlement includes $6 million each to San Bruno and another nearby city, San Carlos. Most of the rest of the settlement would go to PG&E customers, reducing their monthly bills an average of 22 cents through 2019.
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