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Michelle Ma

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Sep 2, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Michelle Ma

    PG&E to Defer $2 Billion of Work After California Shelved Fire Bill (opens the original)

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    PG&E Corp. plans to defer about $2 billion of investments next year as part of a strategic review of its businesses, a move that comes after it said a proposed revamp of California’s wildfire response didn’t do enough to protect the company and its peers from the cost of such disasters. The gas and power utility announced its plan on Wednesday, a day after the California Assembly adjourned without passing the wildfire legislation. Gov. Gavin Newsom had pushed for measures that would shift liabil

  2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Michelle Ma, Andrew Oxford

    California Lawmakers File Wildfire Plan, Without Newsom Asks (opens the original)

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    California legislators introduced a bill Saturday that would update the state’s wildfire response without shifting liability away from publicly traded utilities. The move comes after extended negotiations with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, which had been advocating for measures that would bar insurers from suing utilities to recover payouts for property policyholders. The legislation is the result of a compromise with Newsom and is intended to bolster the state’s wildfire recovery response

  3. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Michelle Ma

    Edison Says Its Equipment Likely Associated With 2025 LA Fire (opens the original)

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    Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro told investors “no other viable alternatives have appeared” to explain what caused a massive wildfire in the Los Angeles area last year other than equipment owned by the company’s Southern California utility. The company now believes that “absent additional evidence, it is likely that its equipment was associated with the ignition of the Eaton Fire,” according to a quarterly filing Thursday. Related: Edison Rejects Blame for LA Fire Tied to Tower Idle Since

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Michelle Ma

    Edison Rejects Blame for LA Fire Tied to Tower Idle Since 1971 (opens the original)

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    Edison International’s Southern California utility is urging a Los Angeles judge not to find the company liable for property damages from a 2025 Los Angeles wildfire that destroyed more than 9,400 buildings. Southern California Edison argued in a court filing last week that the transmission tower where last year’s deadly Eaton Fire allegedly ignited had been idle for so long, since 1971, that it no longer qualifies as the kind of public infrastructure that triggers California’s strict liability

  5. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Michelle Ma, Emily Forgash

    Edison Gets Mixed Rulings on Bid to Spread Blame for LA Wildfire (opens the original)

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    A judge rejected Southern California Edison’s attempt to shift blame to Los Angeles County for allegedly failing to ensure timely evacuation alerts that the company says could have saved most of the 19 people who died in a massive wildfire last year. But the state judge said the utility can pursue its claims that the county created a “dangerous condition” by failing to prevent overgrown vegetation in the Pasadena area where the Eaton Fire ignited in January 2025. SoCal Edison, a subsidiary of Ed

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