California's embattled utility leaves criminal probation, but more charges loom
by The Associated Press
Jan 24, 2022
4 minutes
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation's largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by its outdated equipment and neglectful management.The probation, set to expire at midnight Tuesday, was supposed to rehabilitate PG&E after its 2016 conviction for six felony crimes from a 2010 explosion triggered by its natural gas lines that blew up a San Bruno neighborhood and killed eight people.Instead, PG&E became an even more destructive force. Since 2017 the utility has been blamed for more than
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