HECA emails suggest wrong-doing

Newly-released emails suggest a pattern of backroom deals between a PG&E executive and the former state Public Utilities Commission over the Hydrogen Energy California Project set to be built near Tupman.

The $4 billion project would burn coal to produce electricity, fertilizer and CO2 that could boost nearby oil production.

The San Francisco Chronicle poured over the 65,000 emails just released by PG&E last month.

State and federal prosecutors are looking into possible w