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Administrative/Regulatory

Dec. 25, 2014

Attorney named as CPUC commissioner

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday appointed Michael Picker as president of the beleaguered California Public Utilities Commission and also tapped attorney Liane Randolph to a commisioner's seat.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday appointed Michael Picker as president of the beleaguered California Public Utilities Commission and also tapped attorney Liane Randolph to a commisioner's seat. Picker, a PUC commissioner since January, takes the helm as the agency is under intense pressure from local and state officials to improve its oversight of the state's three investor-owned utilities after the deadly Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pipel...

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