California Faces Tough Choices on Utility Wildfire Liability Reform

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By info@greentechmedia.comJun 5, 2019, 3:39 pm219 pts
California’s combination of increasingly dangerous wildfires and utility liability legal doctrine has already pushed its biggest investor-owned utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, into bankruptcy. What policy changes could prevent the next big wildfire caused by a utility power line to force the state’s…

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