(06-26) 18:13 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The infighting within the California Public Utilities Commission over how to punish Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for the San Bruno disaster culminated Wednesday in a shakeup that left the agency's top lawyer - a former PG&E attorney - off the high-profile case. The commission's general counsel, Frank Lindh, had come under fire for reassigning commission attorneys who wanted PG&E fined for the 2010 natural-gas pipeline explosion, which killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. The attorneys had clashed with the head of the commission's safety division, Jack Hagan, who argued that the money PG&E is spending to improve its gas system was penalty enough and...
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