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    Review: The road to California's energy disaster: A new history of PG&E paints a bleak picture

    When I read Pacific Gas and Electric's mission statement aloud to my wife, her eyes narrowed. "We are delivering for our hometowns, serving our planet and leading with love," I recited. Her response: "Forget the love. How about you try not to burn my house down?" PG&E is trying. After decades of gross negligence, multiple wildfires, a neighborhood gas pipeline explosion, scores of guilty pleas ...
    by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times Aug 31, 2022 3 minutes
    The Camp Fire burns near Pulga, California, in 2018. Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Blunt, who uncovered PG&E’ s culpability in the deadly blaze, documents the company’ s history in a new book.

    When I read Pacific Gas and Electric's mission statement aloud to my wife, her eyes narrowed.

    "We are delivering for our hometowns, serving our planet and leading with love," I recited.

    Her response: "Forget the love. How about you try not to burn my house down?"

    PG&E is trying. After decades of gross negligence, multiple wildfires, a neighborhood gas pipeline explosion, scores of guilty pleas to and billions in property damage, the company appears at last to be taking safety seriously. Its efforts include a massive expansion of tree-trimming to protect power lines, plans to bury hundreds

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