First it was Berkeley getting caught in l'affaire Peevey. Now it's UCLA. (Peevey was head of the state Public Utilities Commission and has been accused as acting for the utilities in that capacity.) In both cases - it should be noted - the problem seems to have been at the PUC, not the campuses.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: The former head of the California Public Utilities Commission pressured
two Southern California utilities last year to make donations to a
school at UCLA where he then landed a post on an advisory board,
documents revealed Wednesday show. The panel’s then-president, Michael Peevey, urged that Southern
California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric Co. donate the money as
part of a deal to shut down their jointly owned San Onofre nuclear
power plant, which had been offline for more than a year because of
steam generator problems, according to documents that Edison made
public... In September 2014, when the utilities commission took up the San
Onofre shutdown deal, (PUC member Mike) Florio proposed that it include $25 million from
Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric for greenhouse gas research at UC
Berkeley over five years. Before the panel approved the deal,
commissioners amended it to give the money to UCLA.That same month, Peevey joined the the advisory board
for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy’s Center for Innovation.
E-mails released earlier this year show that in December 2013, Peevey
had mentioned to a university official the possibility that utility
money could be directed to UCLA’s Center for Sustainable Communities,
which is part of the Luskin School...
Full story at http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-questions-about-ex-CPUC-president-s-deals-6232376.php?t=9120504dc400af33be&cmpid=twitter-premium
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Note: Earlier related posts on this matter:
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/04/scandals-have-way-of-evolving.html
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-story-with-legs.html
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-not-so-happy-ending-to-this-program.html
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/03/no-dough-dinner.html
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/02/gas-pains-at-berkeley-anyone-embarrassed.html
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