Carroll Fife claimed the utility threatened to withdraw charitable gifts and investment in Oakland if the City Council supported a state bill that would further regulate for-profit utilities. PG&E says that’s false.

Oakland residents wanted to take a modest step toward ditching an investor-owned utility. Then PG&E got involved.

Activists across the North Bay are taking to the streets Thursday to, again, join nationwide and international protests against the Trump administration — this time in the name of the late civil rights leader and former Georgia Congressman John Lewis.