PG&E Corporation — Ethics Grade F

PG&E Corporation receives an overall ethics grade of F (15/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Energy. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 32
• privacy: 65
• consumer: 10
• environment: 5
• humanRights: 18

Documented incidents (3)

• Involuntary Manslaughter Conviction (high, 2020) — PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in California, which was formally determined to have been ignited by neglected, century-old corporate transmission line equipment.
• San Bruno Gas Explosion Penalties (high, 2016) — The utility company was criminally convicted of multi-count pipeline safety violations following a massive natural gas pipeline explosion in a suburban community that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes due to structural logging negligence.
• Political Lobbying and Fire Bailouts (high, 2019) — Faced scathing public and regulatory condemnation for prioritizing executive bonus pools and legislative lobbying networks over urgent tree-trimming and line-shrouding grid safety programs.

Documented good deeds

• Power Line Undergrounding Initiative — Initiated a massive engineering commitment to bury 10,000 miles of high-risk distribution power lines across wildfire-prone areas to permanently eliminate structural spark hazards.

Ethical alternatives

• Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — Operates cleanly as a publicly owned community-governed non-profit utility model, delivering lower rates and vastly superior maintenance logs.