Northern California Fire Becomes State’s Biggest in a Day, Evacuations Ordered July 25, 2024 A wildfire that started Wednesday near Chico, California grew quickly to 45,549 acres overnight to become the state’s largest active...
Judge Dismisses Criminal Charges Against California Energy Company in 2020 Fatal Wildfire June 2, 2023 REDDING, Calif. (AP) – A California judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric in connection to...
Profits Over Safety: Grand Jury Says PG&E Ignored Warnings in Wildfire That Killed 85 June 18, 2020 By Janie Har A scathing grand jury report released Tuesday after a 2018 Northern California wildfire killed 85 people found that Pacific Gas...
Mass Blackouts Across California Are Coming to an End — For Now November 1, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan, David R. Baker and Michael B. Marois A series of deliberate blackouts that affected millions of Californians this month is coming to an end. But wildfire season...
One Wildfire Metric Threatens to Upend PG&E’s Restructuring Plan October 29, 2019 PG&E Corp. investors looking to learn their fate may not get the answer from the bankrupt power company. Instead, the...
PG&E Cuts Power to Half a Million in California on Fire Risk October 9, 2019 By David R. Baker, Mark Chediak and Jeffrey Taylor PG&E Corp., the California utility giant forced into bankruptcy by devastating wildfires, has cut power to 513,000 customers in the...
PG&E Disagrees With WSJ Story Over Power Line Upgrades August 1, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt and Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. told a judge it “strongly disagrees” with a Wall Street Journal storysuggesting that the utility knew its equipment...
After Blazes Burn PG&E, California Passes Utility Fire Fund July 12, 2019 By Mark Chediak California is establishing a fund totaling as much as $21 billion to help rescue utilities from a wildfire crisis that...
PG&E Judge Demands Response to WSJ Report on Faulty Lines July 11, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt PG&E Corp. was ordered by a federal judge overseeing its probation to respond to a Wall Street Journal story claiming...
California’s Fire ‘Bailout’ for PG&E, Edison Clears Hurdle July 10, 2019 By Mark Chediak and Jeffrey Taylor Utility giants PG&E Corp. and Edison International are one step closer to getting California’s help in covering the costs of...