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Environmental & Energy,
Criminal

Dec. 20, 2021

PG&E likely faces hearing on whether it violated probation

U.S. District Judge William Alsup set a hearing for Jan. 3 for the utility to admit or deny charges involving two fires. If the company denies the allegations, he will set an evidentiary hearing the following week.

A U.S. judge in San Francisco indicated Thursday he would likely order Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to face an evidentiary hearing on whether it violated the terms of criminal probation by causing fires in 2019 and 2020, including involuntary manslaughter in violation of state law.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup set a hearing for Jan. 3 for the utility to admit or deny t...

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