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Originally Posted by Greyghost
PG&E Bankrupted themselves with years of abuse an doing nothing in the way of maintenance. And if anything had to do with the company ignoring regulations.

Phil



All overseen by the California PUC and tangentially the California Energy Commission, the Governor and the Legislature.


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The California Rule That Doomed PG&E: Inverse Condemnation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...le-that-doomed-pg-e-inverse-condemnation

"That’s why California utilities can be held liable for damages from fires sparked by their equipment, even if they followed all of the state’s stringent safety rules. They can try to pass on those costs to ratepayers, but there’s no guarantee such efforts will get approved by the state’s California Public Utilities Commission."

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