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Judge Imposes Maximum Penalty on PG&E for 2018 Camp Fire
PG&E consented to those terms in March when it agreed to plead guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter and one count of recklessly starting the Camp Fire. The company has also committed to pay up to $15 ...
PG&E Is Racing to Stem Increasing Fires Ignited by Its Power Lines
PG&E is racing to confront an uptick in fires ignited ... one of the company’s oldest high-voltage power lines failed and ...
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Frustrating tax law has kept Camp Fire survivors from receiving full PG&E settlements
John Ramos reports on the bureaucracy survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise have struggled with due to their PG&E settlement money being taxed. Against the odds, Prince Harry has won a ...
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Judge Calls PG&E ‘Reckless’ for Failing to Remove Dangerous Tree
That includes two people who died in the 2015 Butte Fire, 22 who died in the 2017 Northern California wildfires, 85 who died in the 2018 Camp Fire, and four who died in the Zogg Fire last year. Alsup, ...
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What LA can learn from 2018 fire that destroyed Paradise: ‘It will never be like it was… but it can still be home’
The Camp Fire, which started because of a downed PG&E power line on Nov. 8, 2018, burned more than 153,000 acres, destroyed 13,500 homes and killed 85 people, effectively leveling Paradise and ...
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Confusing tax law impacting Camp Fire survivors corrected years later
Because PG&E was found liable for the fire ... But in 2018 -- the same year as the Camp Fire -- the Trump administration removed attorneys' fees as a tax exempt expense, meaning wildfire victims ...
Business Insider India6y
A $21 billion hedge fund has doubled down on PG&E since the California wildfires - here's why
"The market assumes too high a probability that PG&E caused the Tubbs Fire, overestimates the face value of 2018 Camp Fire liabilities, and does not incorporate the several ways that the face ...