The real smokescreen

Pub date August 16, 2007
SectionPolitics Blog

by Amanda Witherell

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The real smokescreen is the one PG&E is puffing in the Potrero and Bayview neighborhoods. This is the flier their bogus front group mailed out last week. PG&E is claiming the neighborhood can’t handle any more pollution — which is true — but at the same time, the corporation is mishandling the clean-up of their toxic Hunter’s Point power plant, which was shuttered in 2006.