PG&E
Newsletters
PG&E teeters and Gavin Newsom confronts the ‘new abnormal’
Bankruptcy looms for PG&E, Newsom calls for more wildfire funding, the Montecito mudslides, Kamala Harris preps for 2020 and are legislators really like us?
Newsletters
A Jerry Brown talk, a wildfire policy fail and an emissions rollback
Gov. Jerry Brown meets the press, government wildfire policies worsen the problem, the backstory on emissions and what won't happen on death sentences.
Capitol
On Day One, hints of California’s Democratic agenda to come
California's Democratic-dominated Legislature, which convened Monday, hinted at its coming agenda with first-day bills on issues from housing to wildfire.
Newsletters
Bauman’s exit, PG&E’s finances and fires give way to mudslides
How to think about Eric Bauman's resignation, wildfires give way to mudslides and floods across California, what happens if PG&E goes bankrupt, how blue this state is, Paul Ryan vs. Alex Padilla on California elections and the CALmatters quiz.
Environment
What happens if PG&E goes bankrupt?
What could happen if PG&E, which provides natural gas and electricity to 16 million people in northern and central California, goes bankrupt in the aftermath of the deadliest blaze in state history.
Environment
Power companies must do more to fireproof their equipment, but it won’t be cheap—and customers may pay
California's increasingly dire blazes have brought a reckoning over the role of power equipment in starting wildfires.
Newsletters
CA wildfires assault schools, lungs, utilities, air
California wildfires close schools, clog lungs, threaten utility, pollute the air. Plus, state audit for high speed rail, and canvassing for Central Valley Democrats.
Environment
Jerry Brown signed $1 billion in wildfire prevention—and none of it applies to the fires this year
The $1 billion wildfire prevention bill passed in the last legislative session was supposed to "prevent catastrophic wildfires and protect Californians." Months later, the state faces another epic disaster. Why?