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Oil industry and environmental leaders in California both marked the 50th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, but they  did it in very...

By Sammy Roth, LOS ANGELES TIMES January 15, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pge-bankruptcy-climate-change-20190115-story.html Climate change helped fuel the deadly fires that prompted California’s largest power company to announce Monday that...

By Dan Bacher, RED, GREEN & BLUE January 15, 2019 http://redgreenandblue.org/2019/01/15/pge-power-company-chooses-bankruptcy-response-californias-devastating-fires/ This just in from Consumer Watchdog in reaction to PGE’s announcement that they are filing for...

By Alena Maschke, LONG BEACH BUSINESS JOURNAL January 14, 2019 https://www.lbbusinessjournal.com/utilities-face-scrutiny-after-fires-infrastructure-investments-continue-with-focus-on-sustainability/ The destructive and deadly wildfires of 2018 have placed California utilities under special scrutiny as power...

By Ivan Penn, Thomas Fuller and Lisa Friedman, THE NEW YORK TIMES January 14, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/business/energy-environment/pge-bankruptcy-california.html LOS ANGELES — Pacific Gas and Electric said on Monday that...

By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE January 13, 2019 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sd-me-legislators-ma… Sen. Ben Hueso, chairman of the state Senate’s Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, was one of a...