again "shut-offs may continue throughout the next decade" These 3 men decide when PG&E shuts off power to millions By Katie Dowd, SFGATE Updated 9:14 am PDT, Sunday, October 20, 2019 down PG&E to cut power to 800,000 customers across California after midnight Wednesday Oct. 8, 2019 - "PG&E’s shut-offs are intended to prevent the company’s equipment from starting the kind of wildfires it was responsible in October 2017, when power lines started a series of fires in the North Bay, and last year, when they ignited the historically deadly and destructive Camp Fire in Butte County." frequency How Bad Science & Horrific Journalism Misrepresent Wildfires and Climate Jim Steele is Director emeritus of San Francisco State’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus and authored Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism

judge "Global warming is not starting these fires" PG&E violated its felony probation. January 31, 2019 - SAN FRANCISCO — A day after PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection from what could be multi-billion dollar wildfire liability costs, a federal judge Wednesday declared the beleaguered utility in violation of its probation for the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion and spent three hours excoriating the company for its role in the blazes that have ravaged Northern California over the past two years. "You’ve got to be on your absolute best behavior — no more crimes" "Those fires killed 22 people, burned alive in their cars and homes" "There is one clear pattern here: PG&E is starting these fires. Global warming is not starting these fires" "Should I let you keep killing people?" "Does a judge turn a blind eye and let PG&E continue what you’re doing, let you keep killing people?" "Can’t we have electricity that is delivered safely in this state?" "In two years, 3 percent of California burned up" manslaughter PG&E confesses to killing 84 people in 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed town of Paradise in NorCal Besides the mass deaths it caused, PG&E also pleaded guilty to one felony count of unlawfully starting a fire as part of an agreement with District Attorney Mike Ramsey. As Butte County Superior Court Judge Michael Deems read the names of each victim, Johnson acknowledged the horrific toll of PG&E’s history of neglect while solemnly staring at photos of each dead person shown on a screen set up in the courtroom. “No words from me could ever reduce the magnitude of that devastation or do anything to repair the damage,” Johnson said in a statement afterward. “I hope the actions taken today bring some measure of peace.” He also assured the judge that PG&E took responsibility for all the unnecessary devastation that it caused “with eyes wide open to what happened and to what must never happen again.” Johnson was hired about six months after the so-called Camp Fire and plans to step down as CEO on June 30 when PG&E hopes to have won court approval for its plan to get out of its second bankruptcy case in 16 years. A mostly new board of directors recently announced by PG&E as part of a deal with California will hire his replacement.