California lawmakers ratify new efforts at wildfire prevention and assessing who’s responsible
LA TimesWith an urgency sparked by two consecutive years of deadly fires, California lawmakers have sent to Gov. That, supporters said, could mean the San Francisco-based company and other investor-owned utilities facing fire costs would have to scale back ambitious clean energy efforts that are being counted on to help support California’s climate change agenda. “It is not perfect, but it is good.” A series of other bills that moved through the Legislature in its final days aims to improve California’s fire readiness in the coming years. “And it’s about damn time.” The governor didn’t immediately signal whether he’d sign the main bill, SB 901, or the others, but he has long pushed for a solution to give extra help to utility companies that follow the rules when it comes to fire prevention. Assemblyman Marc Levine criticized the effort in SB 901 requiring regulators to conduct a “stress test” of a utility’s financial health when deciding how much the company can afford to pay in wildfire damages.
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