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Paula Bronstein/As the climate warms, the risks of major wildfires are growing, and PacifiCorp is not the only utility to face blame for their role in sparking them. -
Two days after jurors in Multnomah County found that the utility PacifiCorp was to blame for wildfires in 2020, they ordered the company to pay punitive damages.
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Granted an exemption, Pacific Gas & Electric will now seek a 20-year permit — but state officials only want the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant open through 2030 to smooth the transition to renewable energy. -
The utility Pacific Gas & Electric doesn’t have enough power capacity for new development projects in southern Humboldt county.
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United States Forest Service officials have opened a criminal investigation into the cause of the Mosquito Fire, according to a new filing by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E).
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A group of environmental organizations has filed a notice to sue Pacific Gas & Electric over declining fish species in California’s Eel River.
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Pacific Gas & Electric also agreed to submit to five years of oversight. The company didn't acknowledge any wrongdoing in the settlement.
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Regulators approved “seriously deficient” fire prevention plans, including from PG&E, which sparked California’s deadliest wildfire, state auditor says.
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Since 2017 Pacific Gas & Electric has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires that destroyed more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people.
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A California Newsroom analysis of federal filings found that 20 Wall Street hedge funds collectively dumped 250 million PG&E shares, and grossed at least $2 billion, after the utility emerged from bankruptcy protection last year. People whose homes were destroyed by PG&E-caused wildfires haven't fared nearly as well.
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Attorneys in the fast-growing wildfire litigation industry are racing to recruit victims of fires ravaging parts of Northern California, and they're promising to take on a familiar target: PG&E.
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Pacific Gas and Electric announced Wednesday that it intends to lay 10,000 miles of underground power lines throughout California, beginning in high-risk fire areas.
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Victims of the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California rallied over the weekend to protest the way the trust set up to compensate them has been managed, with few victims receiving payments yet while trust administrators pay themselves generous fees.
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While California fire victims waited, a special PG&E Fire Victim Trust in charge of compensating survivors racked up $51 million in overhead costs last year. Meanwhile, the Trust disbursed just $7 million.
