SACRAMENTO — Facing heavy criticism from his own legal team, Frank Lindh, general counsel to the California Public Utilities Commission, will step away from the agency's investigation into the deadly 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, according to a PUC statement released Wednesday.
Lindh created a firestorm in the agency this month when he reassigned four staff lawyers who sought stiffer financial penalties against pipeline operator Pacific Gas & Electric Co. than CPUC management had proposed. Lindh was general counsel of PG&E's gas pipeline transmission unit from 1996 to 1998.
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