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SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Pacific Gas & Electric contaminated the waterfront of San Francisco, a new lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Dan Clarke, through lawyers at Gross & Klein, filed a complaint July 10 in San Francisco federal court against PG&E over a manufactured gas plant – the Cannery MGP.
The plant was a “highly polluting” refinery that contaminated the area around it, the lawsuit says.
“The MGP Waste contamination from the Cannery MGP may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and the environment,” the lawsuit says.
PG&E has known about the pollution since at least the 1980s but has not performed an investigation in decades, the lawsuit says.
“(A)t the same time as it has acknowledged its liability for the Additional MGPs, PG&E has denied owning and operating the former Cannery MGP, despite multiple sources of evidence showing that PG&E owned and operated it – including PG&E’s own records and a superficial investigation of the site conducted in 1986,” the suit says.