Environmental & Energy
Feb. 4, 2021
US judge calls PG&E 'a terror' to Californians
U.S. District Judge William Alsup suggests “it was reckless, maybe criminally reckless” for the utility to have not cut down a tree he believes may have caused the Zogg Fire.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. might have been "criminally reckless" when it neglected to cut down a tree near where a wildfire started last year that killed four people, a federal judge in San Francisco said Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup at a hearing grilled the utility for resisting the imposition of new terms to its probation resulting from the fail...
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