California Governor Wants Wildfire Fund to Help Utilities June 21, 2019 By Mark Chediak and Romy Varghese California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pressing lawmakers on a wildfire fund that may be financed through bonds to help utilities...
PG&E Settles for $1B with Local Governments for California Fire Claims June 19, 2019 By Jim Christie PG&E Corp. will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in...
Hammer Sparks Led to California’s Mendocino Blaze June 11, 2019 California fire officials say sparks from a hammer driving a metal stake into the ground ignited a 2018 blaze in...
PG&E in California Proactively Cuts Power Because of Weather June 10, 2019 Pacific Gas & Electric implemented a controversial practice of cutting power to selected portions of Northern California on Saturday to...
PG&E Restructuring Plan Upped to $45B by Creditors May 31, 2019 By Scott Deveau and Katherine Doherty A group of PG&E Corp. creditors could preempt the embattled California utility’s own attempt to claw its way out of...
California Utility Regulator OKs PG&E’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan May 30, 2019 A Wildfire Mitigation Plan submitted by Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission on...
California Commissioner Wants Insurers to Extend Living Expense Coverage for 2017 Wildfire Survivors May 29, 2019 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday announced two new actions intended to assist survivors of the 2017 North Bay...
X Prize Developing Wildfire-Fighting Contest May 14, 2019 The X Prize Foundation is developing a contest for technology that can detect and extinguish wildfires before they grow too...
California May Go Dark This Summer; Most Aren’t Ready May 13, 2019 By Mark Chediak and Brian Eckhouse A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions...
$10B Fund for California Fire Costs May Dry Up by 2030 May 10, 2019 California has for months been weighing the idea of a fund that utilities could dip into when facing crippling costs...