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Analysis: Over a century later, California may need another revolt against its utility companies

May 8, 2025 CalMatters 3

By Loretta Lynch for CalMatters Fed up with decades of powerful railroads corrupting the state board that was supposed to regulate them, California voters created the modern Public Utilities Commission in 1911. Now, some 114 […]

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With no limits, PG&E may raise rates again for Northern and Central Californians

February 1, 2024 Capital & Main 2

By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which dominates the supply of power to most of Northern and Central […]

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Miocene fund intact

November 4, 2021 Ashiah Bird (Scharaga) 0

While PG&E has yet to announce a decision regarding the repair of the historic Miocene Canal—which is owned by PG&E and was destroyed by the Camp Fire—Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey told county supervisors […]

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Rebuild the canal?

September 21, 2021 Ashiah Bird (Scharaga) 2

It will take $40 million to $60 million and four to five years to repair the upper portion of a major canal destroyed by the Camp Fire, according to PG&E study findings reported during a […]

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Sparking debate

September 2, 2021 Evan Tuchinsky 0

This feature is part of special wildfire report on the one-year anniversary of the North Complex Fire’s destruction of Berry Creek and Feather Falls. Find links for more articles in this series at the end […]

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In good faith?

August 5, 2021 Ashiah Bird (Scharaga) 0

Gail Tozier placed her hand upon the bark of a dying olive tree in her Butte Valley orchard. The trees are over 120 years old, she said, and haven’t been irrigated since November 2018, when […]

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Day of reckoning

June 19, 2020 Melissa Daugherty 1

Michael Hanko leaned over the lectern in a Chico courtroom as if his legs would give out, mustering the strength to continue speaking about the sibling he lost in the Camp Fire. His was the […]

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Guilty pleas from PG&E

June 16, 2020 Melissa Daugherty 0

On Tuesday morning (June 16) at Butte County Superior Court, more than 19 months after the Camp Fire, PG&E pleaded guilty to causing the mega blaze as well as 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter linked […]

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Can PG&E limit outages?

June 15, 2020 Scott Thomas Anderson 0

While economists are trying to determine just how stark the new COVID-19 reality is for mom-and-pop businesses, a recent survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce suggests the situation hasn’t hit rock bottom: Forty-three percent of […]

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‘Don’t forget about the Miocene Canal’: Butte County DA and PG&E reach agreement on water access, but questions linger

April 3, 2020 Ashiah Bird (Scharaga) 2

Business started booming for the Bamford family shortly after they opened the doors to their olive oil tasting room and gift shop in 2016. People constantly trickled into the downtown Oroville storefront to sample the […]

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