Clarke

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DAN CLARKE, Case No. 20-cv-04629-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART MOTION TO

DISMISS THE COMPLAINT

PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 10 11 Defendants.

12 Roughly one hundred years ago, as alleged by plaintiff Dan Clarke, defendants Pacific Gas and Electric Company and PG&E Corporation (collectively “PG&E”) left behind hazardous waste created by its manufactured gas plants (“MGPs”) along the northern waterfront of San Francisco. Those plants have long since been abandoned. In 2014, Clarke and the San Francisco Herring Association (“SFHA”) sued PG&E for contamination arising out of the Fillmore, North Beach and Beach Street MGPs, formerly located in the Marina neighborhood where Clarke lived (the “Marina MGP case”). That case ultimately settled. Now Clarke seeks to sue PG&E for similar contamination caused by another MGP, the Cannery MGP, formerly located in the area…