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The current amount set aside isn't enough!\" wrote Camp Fire survivor Tina Reszler, who lost her home and her dog, Talula, in the 2018 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Official Committee of Tort Claimants, or TCC, is made up of 11 survivors who represent the tens of thousands of victims of recent fires caused or suspected to have been caused by PG&E. The committee's lawyers reached the multibillion dollar agreement with the utility in December, nearly a year after PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection\u003c/a>, citing wildfire-related liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While TCC lawyers have handled negotiations on behalf of the vast majority of victims, letters to Montali have been one of the few direct forms of communication between individual survivors and the court. And this most recent batch, posted to the court docket, paints a portrait of frustration and emotional anguish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Camp Fire survivor Lisa Williams\"]'We know how bad this settlement is for survivors. It is my sincerest hope that the majority of claimants vote this down.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know how bad this settlement is for survivors. It is my sincerest hope that the majority of claimants vote this down,\" wrote Camp Fire survivor Lisa Williams. \"Survivors have taken a backseat to all the rich investors that have had an eye on making a profit at our expense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several survivors specifically noted their concern that half of the settlement will come in the form of PG&E stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Further disconcerting is the expectation that fire victims accept potentially volatile, unreliable and delayed funding in the form of restructured PG&E stock and tax benefits, while the same financing has been ardently refused by experienced hedge fund managers,\" wrote James Finn of Santa Rosa, who lost his home in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774069/pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PG&E reached a separate $11 billion all-cash deal\u003c/a> with insurance claim holders in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current draft summary being prepared for survivors to review, ahead of a vote this spring, states that \"no fire victims will receive stock of reorganized PG&E Corp directly.\" However, shares of PG&E are slated to go into a trust that will be set up to pay their claims. That means the payments they receive would be tied, in part, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-es-fire-victims-are-set-to-become-its-biggest-shareholders-11581592571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PG&E's share performance after bankruptcy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several survivors also asked Montali to institute a cap on fees they will have to pay to personal injury lawyers representing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to their grievances, the letters include personal accounts of harrowing escapes and loss. Many make clear that their troubles are far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think people understand what impact PG&E did to us!!!\" wrote Camp Fire survivor Cheryl Maynard. She noted the stress in her life following the blaze has led to several visits to hospital emergency rooms, and was recently told she needs surgery for a condition called tachycardia, in which the heart beats faster than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"bankruptcy\"]Although victims seldom appear in Montali's courtroom, Tubbs Fire survivor Will Abrams on Tuesday argued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801051/lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal motion\u003c/a> asking the judge to reconsider the cash-stock settlement with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montali overruled Abrams' motion, citing the complexities of the agreement that PG&E reached with the committee representing survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re assuming that 70,000 of your fellow survivors would want to even attempt to understand it,\" Montali told Abrams in court Tuesday. \"You are very thorough and you’re reading carefully and asking questions. I suspect that large numbers of [survivors] don’t want to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I respect your views but I can’t let your desires jeopardize what is a very, very complex process,\" Montali added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Skikos, a lawyer representing a member of the survivors' committee, said in court Tuesday that now the onus is on PG&E to show victims and their attorneys why the plan is the best option for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Platitudes aren’t going to work. What we have to do is provide facts and evidence as to why this plan is going to work,\" Skikos said. \"What we have to do is to get rid of the decades of blind greed that have comprised this company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly 20 victims of wildfires wrote letters to a bankruptcy judge protesting the terms of the settlement. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fire Victims Ask Judge to Reconsider $13.5 Billion PG&E Settlement","datePublished":"2020-02-15T00:22:30.000Z","dateModified":"2020-03-20T22:20:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11801571 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11801571","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/14/fire-victims-ask-judge-to-reconsider-13-5-billion-pge-settlement/","disqusTitle":"Fire Victims Ask Judge to Reconsider $13.5 Billion PG&E Settlement","path":"/news/11801571/fire-victims-ask-judge-to-reconsider-13-5-billion-pge-settlement","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly two dozen California wildfire victims are asking a federal judge to reconsider a $13.5 billion settlement that lawyers for the official bankruptcy committee for survivors brokered with PG&E in December as part of the utility's exit from Chapter 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court in San Francisco on Wednesday posted a batch of letters sent to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali from 22 victims of wildfires, including the Camp Fire, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729842/pge-says-its-equipment-likely-caused-camp-fire-as-investigation-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Fire determined\u003c/a> was sparked by PG&E equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please hold PG&E Fully Accountable! The current amount set aside isn't enough!\" wrote Camp Fire survivor Tina Reszler, who lost her home and her dog, Talula, in the 2018 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Official Committee of Tort Claimants, or TCC, is made up of 11 survivors who represent the tens of thousands of victims of recent fires caused or suspected to have been caused by PG&E. The committee's lawyers reached the multibillion dollar agreement with the utility in December, nearly a year after PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection\u003c/a>, citing wildfire-related liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While TCC lawyers have handled negotiations on behalf of the vast majority of victims, letters to Montali have been one of the few direct forms of communication between individual survivors and the court. And this most recent batch, posted to the court docket, paints a portrait of frustration and emotional anguish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We know how bad this settlement is for survivors. It is my sincerest hope that the majority of claimants vote this down.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Camp Fire survivor Lisa Williams","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know how bad this settlement is for survivors. It is my sincerest hope that the majority of claimants vote this down,\" wrote Camp Fire survivor Lisa Williams. \"Survivors have taken a backseat to all the rich investors that have had an eye on making a profit at our expense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several survivors specifically noted their concern that half of the settlement will come in the form of PG&E stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Further disconcerting is the expectation that fire victims accept potentially volatile, unreliable and delayed funding in the form of restructured PG&E stock and tax benefits, while the same financing has been ardently refused by experienced hedge fund managers,\" wrote James Finn of Santa Rosa, who lost his home in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774069/pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PG&E reached a separate $11 billion all-cash deal\u003c/a> with insurance claim holders in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current draft summary being prepared for survivors to review, ahead of a vote this spring, states that \"no fire victims will receive stock of reorganized PG&E Corp directly.\" However, shares of PG&E are slated to go into a trust that will be set up to pay their claims. That means the payments they receive would be tied, in part, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-es-fire-victims-are-set-to-become-its-biggest-shareholders-11581592571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PG&E's share performance after bankruptcy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several survivors also asked Montali to institute a cap on fees they will have to pay to personal injury lawyers representing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to their grievances, the letters include personal accounts of harrowing escapes and loss. Many make clear that their troubles are far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think people understand what impact PG&E did to us!!!\" wrote Camp Fire survivor Cheryl Maynard. She noted the stress in her life following the blaze has led to several visits to hospital emergency rooms, and was recently told she needs surgery for a condition called tachycardia, in which the heart beats faster than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"bankruptcy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Although victims seldom appear in Montali's courtroom, Tubbs Fire survivor Will Abrams on Tuesday argued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801051/lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal motion\u003c/a> asking the judge to reconsider the cash-stock settlement with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montali overruled Abrams' motion, citing the complexities of the agreement that PG&E reached with the committee representing survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re assuming that 70,000 of your fellow survivors would want to even attempt to understand it,\" Montali told Abrams in court Tuesday. \"You are very thorough and you’re reading carefully and asking questions. I suspect that large numbers of [survivors] don’t want to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I respect your views but I can’t let your desires jeopardize what is a very, very complex process,\" Montali added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Skikos, a lawyer representing a member of the survivors' committee, said in court Tuesday that now the onus is on PG&E to show victims and their attorneys why the plan is the best option for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Platitudes aren’t going to work. What we have to do is provide facts and evidence as to why this plan is going to work,\" Skikos said. \"What we have to do is to get rid of the decades of blind greed that have comprised this company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11801571/fire-victims-ask-judge-to-reconsider-13-5-billion-pge-settlement","authors":["11552"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_24483","news_140","news_24802","news_26848","news_17968","news_21760","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11801730","label":"news_72"},"news_11801051":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11801051","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11801051","score":null,"sort":[1581437261000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement","title":"Fire Survivor to Make Final Plea Against PG&E Victim Settlement","publishDate":1581437261,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When the latest hearing in PG&E's bankruptcy takes place Tuesday, the judge overseeing the case will consider a motion from Tubbs Fire victim William Abrams, whose home was destroyed in the 2017 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams is taking what might seem like a counterintuitive position: He's asking Judge Dennis Montali to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11791785/pge-axes-requirement-for-newsom-to-ok-13-5-billion-settlement-with-wildfire-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overturn his approval\u003c/a> of PG&E's $13.5 billion settlement with lawyers representing tens of thousands of fire survivors like Abrams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a sea of lawyers that regularly pack into Montali's San Francisco courtroom, Abrams is often the only fire victim present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the lawyers who negotiated the multibillion dollar deal with PG&E haven't done an adequate job educating survivors about how it would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"... [V]ictims are starting to learn what is in the [agreement] and expressing that it is inconsistent with their best interest,\" Abrams wrote in a court filing ahead of Tuesday's hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is a key pillar of PG&E's plan to emerge from bankruptcy by June 30. The utility needs to finalize its Chapter 11 exit by that deadline in order to draw from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760618/newsom-signs-wildfire-liability-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-new-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund created by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers\u003c/a> to insulate California's utilities from future fire liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire investigators have found PG&E equipment has caused several of California's deadliest fires in recent years.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"pge-settlement\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003cbr>\nAbrams' plea to Montali doesn't rest solely on the premise that survivors are being led into an unfavorable deal. He also says it fails to ensure that PG&E will make long-term investments in its grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams' critics argue such concerns are beyond the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court, an argument that Montali has indicated in previous hearings that he agrees with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing responding to Abrams' claims, attorneys for PG&E said the settlement with victims's attorneys was the product of \"hard-fought, good faith, and arms' length negotiations\" among the parties, adding that it's in the \"best interests of all Fire Victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's lawyers are asking Montali to dismiss Abrams' proposal to send the utility and survivors' lawyers back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tubbs Fire victim William Abrams says the lawyers who negotiated the $13.5 billion settlement with PG&E haven't done an adequate job educating survivors about how it would work.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1582761186,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":378},"headData":{"title":"Fire Survivor to Make Final Plea Against PG&E Victim Settlement | KQED","description":"Tubbs Fire victim William Abrams says the lawyers who negotiated the $13.5 billion settlement with PG&E haven't done an adequate job educating survivors about how it would work.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fire Survivor to Make Final Plea Against PG&E Victim Settlement","datePublished":"2020-02-11T16:07:41.000Z","dateModified":"2020-02-26T23:53:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11801051 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11801051","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/11/lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement/","disqusTitle":"Fire Survivor to Make Final Plea Against PG&E Victim Settlement","path":"/news/11801051/lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the latest hearing in PG&E's bankruptcy takes place Tuesday, the judge overseeing the case will consider a motion from Tubbs Fire victim William Abrams, whose home was destroyed in the 2017 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams is taking what might seem like a counterintuitive position: He's asking Judge Dennis Montali to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11791785/pge-axes-requirement-for-newsom-to-ok-13-5-billion-settlement-with-wildfire-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overturn his approval\u003c/a> of PG&E's $13.5 billion settlement with lawyers representing tens of thousands of fire survivors like Abrams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a sea of lawyers that regularly pack into Montali's San Francisco courtroom, Abrams is often the only fire victim present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the lawyers who negotiated the multibillion dollar deal with PG&E haven't done an adequate job educating survivors about how it would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"... [V]ictims are starting to learn what is in the [agreement] and expressing that it is inconsistent with their best interest,\" Abrams wrote in a court filing ahead of Tuesday's hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is a key pillar of PG&E's plan to emerge from bankruptcy by June 30. The utility needs to finalize its Chapter 11 exit by that deadline in order to draw from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760618/newsom-signs-wildfire-liability-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-new-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special fund created by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers\u003c/a> to insulate California's utilities from future fire liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire investigators have found PG&E equipment has caused several of California's deadliest fires in recent years.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"pge-settlement","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nAbrams' plea to Montali doesn't rest solely on the premise that survivors are being led into an unfavorable deal. He also says it fails to ensure that PG&E will make long-term investments in its grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams' critics argue such concerns are beyond the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court, an argument that Montali has indicated in previous hearings that he agrees with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing responding to Abrams' claims, attorneys for PG&E said the settlement with victims's attorneys was the product of \"hard-fought, good faith, and arms' length negotiations\" among the parties, adding that it's in the \"best interests of all Fire Victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's lawyers are asking Montali to dismiss Abrams' proposal to send the utility and survivors' lawyers back to the drawing board.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11801051/lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement","authors":["11552"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_16","news_140","news_27132","news_21760","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11801067","label":"news_72"},"news_11790379":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11790379","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11790379","score":null,"sort":[1575942149000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-could-avoid-jury-trial-if-13-5-settlement-approved","title":"PG&E Could Avoid Jury Trial if $13.5 Billion Settlement Gets OK From Governor, Judge","publishDate":1575942149,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric will be able to avoid two major legal obstacles — ones that could have tripped up its efforts to bounce back from bankruptcy — if its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790175/pge-announces-13-5-billion-deal-to-resolve-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$13.5 billion settlement\u003c/a> offer to victims of catastrophic fires is approved by California's governor and a federal judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provided more details about the deal in a Monday regulatory filing, revealing that the settlement will allow the utility to skip a January civil trial intended to determine whether it was liable for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674663/with-pge-implicated-in-wildfire-catastrophe-a-fight-over-its-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 Tubbs fire\u003c/a> in Northern California's wine country that killed 22 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal would also scrap plans for a federal court hearing that was supposed to estimate the company's total bill for all the fires between 2015 and 2018 linked to its power systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing potential damages of up to $30 billion, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a> last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a judge had deemed the liabilities much higher in a trial, the company could have been rendered insolvent, which would have blown up its plan to reorganize its finances and resume normal business operations after emerging from bankruptcy protection next summer.[aside postID='news_11789259,news_11785582,news_11788316' label='RELATED COVERAGE']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is exciting news for PG&E. They didn't want to have anything to do with going before a jury,\" said Jared Ellias, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law who has been closely following the bankruptcy case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors also seemed relieved: PG&E's stock climbed nearly 16% Monday to close at $11.18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, both the state and federal court hearings are on hold and expected to be shelved entirely, as long as the settlement with fire victims gets the required approvals within the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has until this Friday to sign off on the settlement, which meets his demand that PG&E increase the $7.5 billion it had previously earmarked for fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Dennis Montali has until Dec. 20 to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's office said Newsom is reviewing the settlement to ensure it meets his goal of treating both the fire victims and PG&E employees fairly while also putting the utility on more stable financial footing to make extensive upgrades to its grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the company and the lawyer representing the bankruptcy committee for fire victims declined to comment on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal with the fire victims will make it easier for PG&E to meet a June 30 deadline set by the state to get out of bankruptcy in order to be partially protected from future fire losses by a special fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it still isn't all smooth sailing for the state's largest utility. The San Francisco company still must defeat a competing plan for its reorganization submitted by a group of its bond holders. The proposal lost its previous support from fire victims as part of the $13.5 billion settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also still awaiting Montali's approval for a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774069/pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$11 billion settlement\u003c/a> with 110 insurers who have already paid policyholder claims in the fire. That deal had been facing fierce resistance from fire victims who had feared it would drain PG&E of all its cash, leaving them in the lurch or forced to accept nothing but stock in a company that could be worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new deal with fire victims calls for the company to pay out half the settlement in cash, staggered in installments that will begin with the settlement's approval and continue through January 2022. The second half will consist of stock in the reorganized company, giving fire victims a nearly 21% stake in the utility, according to Monday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock payment will be a boon for fire victims if PG&E fares as well as it did after it ended a three-year stint in bankruptcy protection in April 2004. The company's stock soared from about $29 to a high of $71.57 in Sept. 2017, just before the Tubbs fire signaled that it could be facing huge financial headaches for many years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire risks underlying the utility's current trip through bankruptcy make this time around much different from the previous one, which was caused by a botched attempt at electricity deregulation. As a result, PG&E is likely to face a bumpier ride out of bankruptcy, making it more likely that its stock will swing more wildly too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is nothing in this settlement that solves the problem that PG&E is still going to be running a really risky business,\" Ellias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom and a federal judge, the settlement would allow the utility to avoid two major legal obstacles that could have tripped up its efforts to bounce back from bankruptcy.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1575953340,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":785},"headData":{"title":"PG&E Could Avoid Jury Trial if $13.5 Billion Settlement Gets OK From Governor, Judge | KQED","description":"If approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom and a federal judge, the settlement would allow the utility to avoid two major legal obstacles that could have tripped up its efforts to bounce back from bankruptcy.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"PG&E Could Avoid Jury Trial if $13.5 Billion Settlement Gets OK From Governor, Judge","datePublished":"2019-12-10T01:42:29.000Z","dateModified":"2019-12-10T04:49:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11790379 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11790379","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/09/pge-could-avoid-jury-trial-if-13-5-settlement-approved/","disqusTitle":"PG&E Could Avoid Jury Trial if $13.5 Billion Settlement Gets OK From Governor, Judge","nprByline":"Michael Liedtke \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11790379/pge-could-avoid-jury-trial-if-13-5-settlement-approved","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric will be able to avoid two major legal obstacles — ones that could have tripped up its efforts to bounce back from bankruptcy — if its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790175/pge-announces-13-5-billion-deal-to-resolve-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$13.5 billion settlement\u003c/a> offer to victims of catastrophic fires is approved by California's governor and a federal judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E provided more details about the deal in a Monday regulatory filing, revealing that the settlement will allow the utility to skip a January civil trial intended to determine whether it was liable for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674663/with-pge-implicated-in-wildfire-catastrophe-a-fight-over-its-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 Tubbs fire\u003c/a> in Northern California's wine country that killed 22 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal would also scrap plans for a federal court hearing that was supposed to estimate the company's total bill for all the fires between 2015 and 2018 linked to its power systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing potential damages of up to $30 billion, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a> last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a judge had deemed the liabilities much higher in a trial, the company could have been rendered insolvent, which would have blown up its plan to reorganize its finances and resume normal business operations after emerging from bankruptcy protection next summer.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11789259,news_11785582,news_11788316","label":"RELATED COVERAGE "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is exciting news for PG&E. They didn't want to have anything to do with going before a jury,\" said Jared Ellias, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law who has been closely following the bankruptcy case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors also seemed relieved: PG&E's stock climbed nearly 16% Monday to close at $11.18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, both the state and federal court hearings are on hold and expected to be shelved entirely, as long as the settlement with fire victims gets the required approvals within the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has until this Friday to sign off on the settlement, which meets his demand that PG&E increase the $7.5 billion it had previously earmarked for fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Dennis Montali has until Dec. 20 to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's office said Newsom is reviewing the settlement to ensure it meets his goal of treating both the fire victims and PG&E employees fairly while also putting the utility on more stable financial footing to make extensive upgrades to its grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the company and the lawyer representing the bankruptcy committee for fire victims declined to comment on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal with the fire victims will make it easier for PG&E to meet a June 30 deadline set by the state to get out of bankruptcy in order to be partially protected from future fire losses by a special fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it still isn't all smooth sailing for the state's largest utility. The San Francisco company still must defeat a competing plan for its reorganization submitted by a group of its bond holders. The proposal lost its previous support from fire victims as part of the $13.5 billion settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also still awaiting Montali's approval for a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774069/pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$11 billion settlement\u003c/a> with 110 insurers who have already paid policyholder claims in the fire. That deal had been facing fierce resistance from fire victims who had feared it would drain PG&E of all its cash, leaving them in the lurch or forced to accept nothing but stock in a company that could be worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new deal with fire victims calls for the company to pay out half the settlement in cash, staggered in installments that will begin with the settlement's approval and continue through January 2022. The second half will consist of stock in the reorganized company, giving fire victims a nearly 21% stake in the utility, according to Monday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock payment will be a boon for fire victims if PG&E fares as well as it did after it ended a three-year stint in bankruptcy protection in April 2004. The company's stock soared from about $29 to a high of $71.57 in Sept. 2017, just before the Tubbs fire signaled that it could be facing huge financial headaches for many years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire risks underlying the utility's current trip through bankruptcy make this time around much different from the previous one, which was caused by a botched attempt at electricity deregulation. As a result, PG&E is likely to face a bumpier ride out of bankruptcy, making it more likely that its stock will swing more wildly too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is nothing in this settlement that solves the problem that PG&E is still going to be running a really risky business,\" Ellias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11790379/pge-could-avoid-jury-trial-if-13-5-settlement-approved","authors":["byline_news_11790379"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_24802","news_27132","news_26848","news_21760"],"featImg":"news_11790424","label":"news_72"},"news_11774069":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11774069","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11774069","score":null,"sort":[1568389496000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-insurance-companies-strike-11-billion-deal-to-settle-wildfire-claims","title":"PG&E, Insurance Companies Strike $11 Billion Deal to Settle Wildfire Claims","publishDate":1568389496,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 13\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has cleared another major hurdle in its quest to settle claims related to the devastating Northern California fires the utility caused in 2017 and 2018, announcing a proposed $11 billion settlement with insurance companies that have already paid victims of those disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is a big step toward what PG&E needs to do to exit bankruptcy protection by next June – a deadline set by a recently enacted law that will allow the company to participate in a new, state-run wildfire insurance fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11773137, news_11772725,news_11763100,news_11767619,news_11760618\" label=\"PG&E's Wildfire and Bankruptcy Struggles\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement announced Friday is between PG&E and a group of insurers known as the ad hoc subrogation group that has been formally recognized in bankruptcy court as one of the company's major creditors. The group holds 85% of uninsured insurance claims from the 2017 and 2018 fires, which destroyed more than 20,000 homes and killed 130 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s settlement is another step in doing what’s right for the communities, businesses and individuals affected by the devastating wildfires,” PG&E CEO Bill Johnson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we work to resolve the remaining claims of those who’ve suffered, we are also focused on safely and reliably delivering energy to our customers, improving our systems and infrastructure, and continuing to support California’s clean energy goals,\" Johnson said. \"We are committed to becoming the utility our customers deserve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement does not cover individual wildfire victims who have sued PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire victims' attorney Amanda Riddle was highly critical of the settlement, which she said came as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are putting the needs of victims to the bottom – it is their last priority and that speaks volumes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement amount of $11 billion, which is intended to settle all insurance company claims and is subject to final approval by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, is much less than the $20 billion in claims filed by members of the ad hoc subrogation group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the ad hoc subrogation group said that while the agreement falls far short of its unsecured claims, \"We hope that this compromise will pave the way for a plan of reorganization that allows PG&E to fairly compensate all victims and emerge from Chapter 11 by the June 2020 legislative deadline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the $11 billion settlement figure is substantially more than what the company proposed in a reorganization plan filed with the bankruptcy court just four days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that plan, the company proposed paying insurance companies $8.5 billion. In its Friday statement, PG&E said it will secure additional equity financing to cover the higher settlement amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has yet to come to terms with the tens of thousands of individual wildfire victims who have sued PG&E in the wake of fires that ravaged communities across Northern California in October 2017 and November 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for those plaintiffs were highly critical of PG&E's reorganization plan, which called for paying individual plaintiffs $8.4 billion. Some victims' lawyers dismissed that amount as \"woefully inadequate\" and \"a joke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs' attorney Riddle said there could be as many as 50,000 victims who file claims through the bankruptcy court by the Oct. 21 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riddle estimated that those victims should be entitled to as much as $30 billion to $33 billion based on past PG&E settlements with individual plaintiffs, which she said have run about three times the amount paid to insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wildfire plaintiffs are also formally recognized in bankruptcy court as a PG&E creditor, and their attorneys continue to negotiate a settlement with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a large group of plaintiffs -- those who suffered losses in the catastrophic 2017 Tubbs Fire that destroyed more than 5,000 homes and killed 22 people in Sonoma County -- will head to San Francisco Superior Court this fall to argue that PG&E should be held liable for that fire. State fire investigators have determined that a private property owner, not PG&E, sparked that blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with all the uncertainties surrounding the individual victims' cases, the proposed deal with insurers represents one major box that PG&E needed to check off as it works to exit bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updates\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>*9:35 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Story updated to clarify that the proposed agreement is with the ad hoc subrogation group but is intended to satisfy all outstanding insurance company claims against PG&E arising from the 2017-18 wildfires.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>*10 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Update to include comments from individual wildfire plaintiffs' attorney Amanda Riddle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposed settlement, which still needs court approval, represents a major milestone in the company's attempt to address liabilities from 2017 and 2018 fires and emerge from bankruptcy. 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The group holds 85% of uninsured insurance claims from the 2017 and 2018 fires, which destroyed more than 20,000 homes and killed 130 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s settlement is another step in doing what’s right for the communities, businesses and individuals affected by the devastating wildfires,” PG&E CEO Bill Johnson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we work to resolve the remaining claims of those who’ve suffered, we are also focused on safely and reliably delivering energy to our customers, improving our systems and infrastructure, and continuing to support California’s clean energy goals,\" Johnson said. \"We are committed to becoming the utility our customers deserve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement does not cover individual wildfire victims who have sued PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire victims' attorney Amanda Riddle was highly critical of the settlement, which she said came as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are putting the needs of victims to the bottom – it is their last priority and that speaks volumes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement amount of $11 billion, which is intended to settle all insurance company claims and is subject to final approval by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, is much less than the $20 billion in claims filed by members of the ad hoc subrogation group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the ad hoc subrogation group said that while the agreement falls far short of its unsecured claims, \"We hope that this compromise will pave the way for a plan of reorganization that allows PG&E to fairly compensate all victims and emerge from Chapter 11 by the June 2020 legislative deadline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the $11 billion settlement figure is substantially more than what the company proposed in a reorganization plan filed with the bankruptcy court just four days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that plan, the company proposed paying insurance companies $8.5 billion. In its Friday statement, PG&E said it will secure additional equity financing to cover the higher settlement amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has yet to come to terms with the tens of thousands of individual wildfire victims who have sued PG&E in the wake of fires that ravaged communities across Northern California in October 2017 and November 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for those plaintiffs were highly critical of PG&E's reorganization plan, which called for paying individual plaintiffs $8.4 billion. Some victims' lawyers dismissed that amount as \"woefully inadequate\" and \"a joke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs' attorney Riddle said there could be as many as 50,000 victims who file claims through the bankruptcy court by the Oct. 21 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riddle estimated that those victims should be entitled to as much as $30 billion to $33 billion based on past PG&E settlements with individual plaintiffs, which she said have run about three times the amount paid to insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wildfire plaintiffs are also formally recognized in bankruptcy court as a PG&E creditor, and their attorneys continue to negotiate a settlement with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a large group of plaintiffs -- those who suffered losses in the catastrophic 2017 Tubbs Fire that destroyed more than 5,000 homes and killed 22 people in Sonoma County -- will head to San Francisco Superior Court this fall to argue that PG&E should be held liable for that fire. State fire investigators have determined that a private property owner, not PG&E, sparked that blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with all the uncertainties surrounding the individual victims' cases, the proposed deal with insurers represents one major box that PG&E needed to check off as it works to exit bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updates\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>*9:35 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Story updated to clarify that the proposed agreement is with the ad hoc subrogation group but is intended to satisfy all outstanding insurance company claims against PG&E arising from the 2017-18 wildfires.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>*10 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Update to include comments from individual wildfire plaintiffs' attorney Amanda 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and other immediate needs with Pacific Gas & Electric Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"wildfires\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can \u003ca href=\"https://www.norcalwildfireassistanceprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">file their claims online\u003c/a> through the website for the utility's wildfire assistance program as early as this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E's bankruptcy case\u003c/a> in May approved a $105 million fund to provide relief for people who lost property during the huge fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund will cover victims of a series of fires including the Atlas, Camp, Nuns and Tubbs fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to apply for the funds is November 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund is designed to help provide short-term help for fire victims — but it does not resolve property loss claims against the 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file claims for housing assistance and other immediate needs with Pacific Gas & Electric Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"wildfires"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can \u003ca href=\"https://www.norcalwildfireassistanceprogram.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">file their claims online\u003c/a> through the website for the utility's wildfire assistance program as early as this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E's bankruptcy case\u003c/a> in May approved a $105 million fund to provide relief for people who lost property during the huge fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund will cover victims of a series of fires including the Atlas, Camp, Nuns and Tubbs fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadline to apply for the funds is November 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund is designed to help provide short-term help for fire victims — but it does not resolve property loss claims against the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are also reminding victims who want to join the bankruptcy lawsuit against the utility that the deadline to file a claim is October 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire victims can also receive financial assistance from the government, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story has been corrected to say that applications to the wildfire fund will begin soon, not Monday as attorneys previously 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battled the deadly Tubbs Fire in 2017 left the scene with abnormal levels of mercury and other dangerous chemicals in their blood, according to new findings announced on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation (SFFCPF) and researchers at UC Berkeley analyzed blood and urine samples of roughly 150 first responders three weeks after they had battled the blaze, and compared them to samples from other firefighters who hadn’t been on the frontlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The question is, what can be done to better protect the men and women who are fighting these fires?'\u003ccite>Tony Stefani, president of the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Many of those who fought the fire had elevated levels of the neurotoxin mercury and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their blood, chemicals found in common household items that are also, ironically, present in protective gear and foam commonly used as fire retardant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings suggest that the chemicals may have been released from material burning within buildings and potentially by the firefighters’ gear itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the firefighters used lighter, less restrictive wildland firefighting gear instead of the heavy air tanks and face masks typically used while fighting fires in cities. The sparse gear left responders vulnerable to toxic fumes from the hazardous fuels and chemicals that burned, investigators found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This preliminary data suggests that it's worth looking at more and that we need to inform strategies to better protect firefighters to reduce their exposure to these compounds,\" said Rachel Morello-Forsch, a UC Berkeley environmental science professor who led the study and is also examining specific health impacts on female firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tubbs Fire burned for more than three weeks in October 2017, killing 22 people and destroying thousands of homes in Sonoma and Napa Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine R. Nicholson said she was not at all surprised by the results of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have done some studies within the department and we’ve found elevated levels of chemicals in our bloodstreams compared to the general public,” she said. “The constant exposure up there [in Sonoma], it does not surprise me at all that we have higher levels of chemicals in our bloodstream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFFCPF President Tony Stefani agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, what can be done to better protect the men and women who are fighting these fires?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"wildfires\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Stefani, the issue hits close to home. After serving as a San Francisco fire captain for 27 years, he was forced to retire at the age of 49 after being diagnosed with transitional cell carcinoma, a form of bladder cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was in excellent physical condition except for this massive tumor that I had in my kidney,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of five years, four more firefighters at his station received the same diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said this study is a first step in tracking and uncovering the effects of chemical exposure on firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters are dying with what we call 'their boots off,' \" she said. “Instead of dying in an incident in a fire or a vehicle accident, they're dying of cancer and other diseases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"It will worsen if we keep seeing more and more of these wildland urban interface fires. Something needs to change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some firefighters on the frontlines had elevated levels of the neurotoxin mercury and other toxic chemicals in their blood, new test results show. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562782565,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":556},"headData":{"title":"High Mercury Levels Found in Blood of Firefighters Who Battled 2017 Tubbs Fire | KQED","description":"Some firefighters on the frontlines had elevated levels of the neurotoxin mercury and other toxic chemicals in their blood, new test results show. 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The sparse gear left responders vulnerable to toxic fumes from the hazardous fuels and chemicals that burned, investigators found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This preliminary data suggests that it's worth looking at more and that we need to inform strategies to better protect firefighters to reduce their exposure to these compounds,\" said Rachel Morello-Forsch, a UC Berkeley environmental science professor who led the study and is also examining specific health impacts on female firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tubbs Fire burned for more than three weeks in October 2017, killing 22 people and destroying thousands of homes in Sonoma and Napa Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine R. Nicholson said she was not at all surprised by the results of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have done some studies within the department and we’ve found elevated levels of chemicals in our bloodstreams compared to the general public,” she said. “The constant exposure up there [in Sonoma], it does not surprise me at all that we have higher levels of chemicals in our bloodstream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFFCPF President Tony Stefani agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, what can be done to better protect the men and women who are fighting these fires?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"wildfires"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Stefani, the issue hits close to home. After serving as a San Francisco fire captain for 27 years, he was forced to retire at the age of 49 after being diagnosed with transitional cell carcinoma, a form of bladder cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was in excellent physical condition except for this massive tumor that I had in my kidney,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of five years, four more firefighters at his station received the same diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said this study is a first step in tracking and uncovering the effects of chemical exposure on firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters are dying with what we call 'their boots off,' \" she said. “Instead of dying in an incident in a fire or a vehicle accident, they're dying of cancer and other diseases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"It will worsen if we keep seeing more and more of these wildland urban interface fires. Something needs to change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11760106/high-levels-of-harmful-chemicals-found-in-blood-of-firefighters-who-battled-2017-tubbs-fire-new-analysis-finds","authors":["11523"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_23831","news_21820","news_21760"],"featImg":"news_11760117","label":"news_72"},"news_11741498":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11741498","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11741498","score":null,"sort":[1555777833000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-third-of-homes-lost-in-2017-tubbs-fire-now-under-construction","title":"A Third of Homes Lost in 2017 Tubbs Fire Now Being Rebuilt","publishDate":1555777833,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In 2017, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/multimedia/7567543-181/santa-rosas-tubbs-fire-spread\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> razed several thousand homes in Santa Rosa. One of the neighborhoods hardest hit was Coffey Park. Now, waves of families are returning home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Mortenson will be able to move back to her house in May. Right now, her entire street is a construction zone, the houses at various stages in the process. Her brand new kitchen windows look out onto a charred redwood tree and the houses the next block over. On that street, most of the houses were spared. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It really meant a lot to me in terms of my independence and I loved this house'\u003ccite>Coffey Park resident Joan Mortenson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mortenson says her house almost made it through the fire but that’s as much as she wants to say about that night. The rest is too painful. She bought it after she got divorced, and it was the first she ever owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really meant a lot to me in terms of my independence, and I loved this house,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortenson always knew she would rebuild. There was just the question of \u003cem>how\u003c/em>. At first, she thought she wanted an exact copy of the house she lost. In the end, she decided to change a few things. There are more windows now, an added laundry room, and it’s a cheery yellow instead of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741562\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Joy Neal sit at their dining room table. They rebuilt their home in Coffey Park and moved in this past February.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Adia White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim and Joy Neal live less than a mile from Mortenson. They moved back into their new home on Feb. 13. The move-in date was a Valentine's day present for Joy. They were offered a good amount of money for the property and Jim says he was tempted to sell at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just don’t like the idea that the fire might have burned me out. ... I want to say I came back and I came back better than I was,\" Jim Neal said. \"That’s kind of a matter of personal pride in not giving up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I just don’t like the idea that the fire might have burned me out. ... I want to say I came back and I came back better than I was.'\u003ccite>Coffey Park resident Jim Neal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/E-2/documents/PressReleaseJul2018.pdf\">State data\u003c/a> shows over 2,000 people left Sonoma County between 2017 and 2018, largely due to the wildfires. The county lost more people that year than any other county in the state. The Neals' neighbors moved to Arizona not long after the fires, and their lot is overgrown with weeds. But Neal says he and his wife are now much closer with the neighbors who did decide to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost everything in 30 minutes. That’s a tremendously emotional experience,\" Jim Neal said. \"We’d come here and just break down and cry and we all did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 3,000 homes in Santa Rosa destroyed in the Tubbs Fire, the city says about 1,000 are currently under construction and around 250 have been finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"I want to say I came back and I came back better than I was. That’s kind of a matter of personal pride in not giving up.” -- Jim Neal. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1555962795,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":525},"headData":{"title":"A Third of Homes Lost in 2017 Tubbs Fire Now Being Rebuilt | KQED","description":""I want to say I came back and I came back better than I was. 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One of the neighborhoods hardest hit was Coffey Park. Now, waves of families are returning home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Mortenson will be able to move back to her house in May. Right now, her entire street is a construction zone, the houses at various stages in the process. Her brand new kitchen windows look out onto a charred redwood tree and the houses the next block over. On that street, most of the houses were spared. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It really meant a lot to me in terms of my independence and I loved this house'\u003ccite>Coffey Park resident Joan Mortenson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mortenson says her house almost made it through the fire but that’s as much as she wants to say about that night. The rest is too painful. She bought it after she got divorced, and it was the first she ever owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really meant a lot to me in terms of my independence, and I loved this house,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mortenson always knew she would rebuild. There was just the question of \u003cem>how\u003c/em>. At first, she thought she wanted an exact copy of the house she lost. In the end, she decided to change a few things. There are more windows now, an added laundry room, and it’s a cheery yellow instead of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741562\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Jim-and-Joy-Neal-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim and Joy Neal sit at their dining room table. They rebuilt their home in Coffey Park and moved in this past February.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Adia White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim and Joy Neal live less than a mile from Mortenson. They moved back into their new home on Feb. 13. The move-in date was a Valentine's day present for Joy. They were offered a good amount of money for the property and Jim says he was tempted to sell at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just don’t like the idea that the fire might have burned me out. ... I want to say I came back and I came back better than I was,\" Jim Neal said. \"That’s kind of a matter of personal pride in not giving up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I just don’t like the idea that the fire might have burned me out. ... I want to say I came back and I came back better than I was.'\u003ccite>Coffey Park resident Jim Neal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/E-2/documents/PressReleaseJul2018.pdf\">State data\u003c/a> shows over 2,000 people left Sonoma County between 2017 and 2018, largely due to the wildfires. The county lost more people that year than any other county in the state. The Neals' neighbors moved to Arizona not long after the fires, and their lot is overgrown with weeds. But Neal says he and his wife are now much closer with the neighbors who did decide to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost everything in 30 minutes. That’s a tremendously emotional experience,\" Jim Neal said. \"We’d come here and just break down and cry and we all did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 3,000 homes in Santa Rosa destroyed in the Tubbs Fire, the city says about 1,000 are currently under construction and around 250 have been finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11741498/a-third-of-homes-lost-in-2017-tubbs-fire-now-under-construction","authors":["byline_news_11741498"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_22239","news_21810","news_474","news_21760","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11741559","label":"news_72"},"news_11722386":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11722386","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11722386","score":null,"sort":[1548909806000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-judge-blasts-pge-for-lack-of-commitment-to-wildfire-safety","title":"San Francisco Judge Blasts PG&E for Lack of Commitment to Wildfire Safety","publishDate":1548909806,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco blasted utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Wednesday, accusing the beleaguered company of putting profits before customer safety and not doing enough to keep trees away from its power lines, thus increasing the risk of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Safety is not your number one thing,\" said U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/e297eb8082294ee19588a05cd87670ec\">probation hearing\u003c/a> in San Francisco. The hearing came one day after the utility had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689591066/california-power-provider-pg-e-files-for-bankruptcy-in-wake-of-fire-lawsuits\">filed for bankruptcy protection\u003c/a> in the face of billions of dollars in potential liabilities stemming from two seasons of devastating wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alsup is scrutinizing the utility company's criminal convictions for violating pipeline safety laws after the massive 2010 gas explosion that killed eight people and incinerated a neighborhood in the Peninsula suburb of San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation is underway to determine what role PG&E's power lines may have played in igniting last year's deadly Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed much of the Butte County town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my mind, there's a very clear-cut pattern here: that PG&E is starting these fires,\" Alsup said. \"What do we do? Does the judge just turn a blind eye and say, 'PG&E, continue your business as usual. Kill more people by starting more fires.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge was not done. He said he is concerned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Federal-judge-Not-really-true-that-safety-13575157.php?t=6c9b52b4e0\">possibility of more wildfires in 2019.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Will we be seeing headlines: 'PG&E has done it again?' \" asked Alsup. \"Started another fire and some other town burned down because you didn't turn the power off or you didn't cut the trees?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the judge did not order the company to comply immediately with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683815660/federal-judge-proposes-restrictions-on-unsafe-pg-e-power-lines\">a series of proposals\u003c/a> he made requiring it to inspect its entire power grid and \"remove or trim all tress that could fall onto its power lines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup also suggested that PG&E temporarily shut off power in some circumstances to avoid igniting fires. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/688058715/pg-e-says-federal-judge-s-safety-plan-is-infeasible-and-too-expensive\">responded\u003c/a> by saying the judge's safety plan was not feasible and could cost as much as $150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said he wants to see a wildfire mitigation plan the company is expected to send to state regulators next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wednesday's hearing, PG&E attorney Kevin Orsini said the company is taking steps to reduce the wildfire danger, but that it would not be able to find enough qualified tree trimmers to do all the work the judge has proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people don't exist,\" said Orsini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued after the hearing, the company said it \"shares the court's commitment to safety and agrees with the urgency that we all have to work together to reduce the risk of wildfire throughout Northern and Central California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to working with the court and probation on how we might enhance our communication efforts,\" it added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Federal+Judge+Blasts+PG%26E%27s+Commitment+To+California+Wildfire+Safety+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In unusually frank language, the judge said he fears the potential for more fires in 2019 if the utility company does not take drastic action.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1548983653,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":509},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Judge Blasts PG&E for Lack of Commitment to Wildfire Safety | KQED","description":"In unusually frank language, the judge said he fears the potential for more fires in 2019 if the utility company does not take drastic action.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Francisco Judge Blasts PG&E for Lack of Commitment to Wildfire Safety","datePublished":"2019-01-31T04:43:26.000Z","dateModified":"2019-02-01T01:14:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11722386 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11722386","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/01/30/san-francisco-judge-blasts-pge-for-lack-of-commitment-to-wildfire-safety/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Judge Blasts PG&E for Lack of Commitment to Wildfire Safety","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/01/PGEHearingBrekketcram190131.mp3","nprImageCredit":"Justin Sullivan","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Richard Gonzales\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"690196239","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=690196239&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/30/690196239/federal-judge-blasts-pg-es-commitment-to-california-wildfire-safety?ft=nprml&f=690196239","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:17:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:17:40 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:17:50 -0500","audioTrackLength":95,"path":"/news/11722386/san-francisco-judge-blasts-pge-for-lack-of-commitment-to-wildfire-safety","audioDuration":98000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco blasted utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Wednesday, accusing the beleaguered company of putting profits before customer safety and not doing enough to keep trees away from its power lines, thus increasing the risk of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Safety is not your number one thing,\" said U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/e297eb8082294ee19588a05cd87670ec\">probation hearing\u003c/a> in San Francisco. The hearing came one day after the utility had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689591066/california-power-provider-pg-e-files-for-bankruptcy-in-wake-of-fire-lawsuits\">filed for bankruptcy protection\u003c/a> in the face of billions of dollars in potential liabilities stemming from two seasons of devastating wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alsup is scrutinizing the utility company's criminal convictions for violating pipeline safety laws after the massive 2010 gas explosion that killed eight people and incinerated a neighborhood in the Peninsula suburb of San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation is underway to determine what role PG&E's power lines may have played in igniting last year's deadly Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed much of the Butte County town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my mind, there's a very clear-cut pattern here: that PG&E is starting these fires,\" Alsup said. \"What do we do? Does the judge just turn a blind eye and say, 'PG&E, continue your business as usual. Kill more people by starting more fires.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge was not done. He said he is concerned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Federal-judge-Not-really-true-that-safety-13575157.php?t=6c9b52b4e0\">possibility of more wildfires in 2019.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Will we be seeing headlines: 'PG&E has done it again?' \" asked Alsup. \"Started another fire and some other town burned down because you didn't turn the power off or you didn't cut the trees?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the judge did not order the company to comply immediately with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683815660/federal-judge-proposes-restrictions-on-unsafe-pg-e-power-lines\">a series of proposals\u003c/a> he made requiring it to inspect its entire power grid and \"remove or trim all tress that could fall onto its power lines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup also suggested that PG&E temporarily shut off power in some circumstances to avoid igniting fires. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/688058715/pg-e-says-federal-judge-s-safety-plan-is-infeasible-and-too-expensive\">responded\u003c/a> by saying the judge's safety plan was not feasible and could cost as much as $150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said he wants to see a wildfire mitigation plan the company is expected to send to state regulators next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wednesday's hearing, PG&E attorney Kevin Orsini said the company is taking steps to reduce the wildfire danger, but that it would not be able to find enough qualified tree trimmers to do all the work the judge has proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people don't exist,\" said Orsini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued after the hearing, the company said it \"shares the court's commitment to safety and agrees with the urgency that we all have to work together to reduce the risk of wildfire throughout Northern and Central California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to working with the court and probation on how we might enhance our communication efforts,\" it added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Federal+Judge+Blasts+PG%26E%27s+Commitment+To+California+Wildfire+Safety+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11722386/san-francisco-judge-blasts-pge-for-lack-of-commitment-to-wildfire-safety","authors":["byline_news_11722386"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_24483","news_21773","news_140","news_24802","news_21760","news_4463","news_24784"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11722497","label":"source_news_11722386"},"news_11722060":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11722060","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11722060","score":null,"sort":[1548811672000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"disappointment-concerns-grow-as-pge-files-for-bankruptcy-protection","title":"Disappointment, Concerns Grow as PG&E Files for Bankruptcy Protection","publishDate":1548811672,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and its parent company officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed for bankruptcy protection\u003c/a> early Tuesday morning, saying it was necessary as the company tries to deal with tens of billions of dollars in potential liabilities from destructive wildfires in 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the move just after midnight was expected, reaction was nonetheless swift and overwhelmingly negative. Legislators, experts and consumer watchdog groups slammed the state’s biggest utility, saying it will ultimately benefit the company at the expense of ratepayers and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is the easy way for them to go. This is the way they can move forward and put everyone at risk.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Jerry Hill\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brad Sherwood, a resident of Sonoma County, said he and his family lost everything but their lives in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. Sherwood, who works for the Sonoma County Water Agency, said he and other survivors are concerned about the news of PG&E’s bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwood said his family was not counting on the utility to help them rebuild, but he is most concerned with what bankruptcy will mean for future wildfire prevention efforts in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfires won't stop because of a bankruptcy. Power, I believe, will still be going through those transmission lines ... fire prevention measures must continue, bankruptcy or not,” said Sherwood. “I think PG&E is behind the ball when it comes to fire prevention measures, and I'm concerned that bankruptcy will further put them behind the ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Is Filing for Bankruptcy While Still Solvent\u003c/h3>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At its core, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721763/pge-just-filed-for-bankruptcy-heres-what-happens-next\">Chapter 11 bankruptcy\u003c/a> is aimed at allowing a company to restructure its operations and get rid of some debts when it doesn’t have enough money to pay all those obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what's unusual about this bankruptcy filing is that the utility is still solvent. As part of its filing, PG&E estimated its liabilities at about $51 billion and its assets at more than $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics argue there's no reason for the company to go bankrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the easy way for them to go. This is the way they can move forward and put everyone at risk,” said state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), whose district includes San Bruno, the site of a 2010 gas explosion caused by PG&E equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill points out that ratepayers ended up on the hook for billions of dollars in loans after the utility declared bankruptcy in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ratepayers, as we did with the last bankruptcy, will wind up paying a lot more,” he said. “The victims will probably not get dollar for dollar and PG&E will win. They will come out stronger at the end of the day and probably a more profitable company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Calls for Serious Structural Change at PG&E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bankruptcy will allow PG&E to reorganize, but some say the changes need to go deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The bankruptcy] continues to underscore the need for change at PG&E both in its leadership and corporate culture,” said state Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa). “I think what we've got to focus on right now is safety, reliability and affordability of electric power in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, Loretta Lynch was the president of the California Public Utilities Commission, the agency that regulates utilities. She said the CPUC needs to stand up for ratepayers this time around. She said the last time around, the company got everything it wanted for \"being belligerent\" and fighting the state. She pointed out that no other utilities during that time chose the bankruptcy route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E made out like a bandit. So here we are again 18 years later. None of the other utilities are threatening bankruptcy. Only PG&E. Why? Because they got the store the last time, and they're banking on the fact that this PUC will give them the store,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\">PG&E Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e7ee4f62-rs11522_452938222-e1548184779248-1020x707.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hill and other lawmakers agree that the CPUC needs to play a stronger role in what happens next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The PUC could come back with some strong requirements on that reorganization that puts the balance of power more in the hands of the ratepayers, more in the hands of the consumer and the victims, rather than in the pockets of PG&E shareholders,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics are going farther. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to fire all of the CPUC commissioners, who unanimously voted to pre-approve up to $6.1 billion in credit and loans for PG&E on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What many people don’t realize is this $6 billion credit line comes on top of the bailout the Legislature approved for PG&E and the other utilities over the 2017 fires,” said Court. “The PUC should be called the PG&E Underwriting Commission, not the Public Utilities Commission, because there was absolutely no public protection in this decision. There wasn’t even an opportunity for the public to comment, it happened so fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fire Survivors Not Optimistic on Payouts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County residents, who lived through the Tubbs Fire in 2017, said the bankruptcy news was not a surprise, and many seemed resigned to the possibility that fire victims may have to get in line with shareholders, stockholders and creditors before getting any payout from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I really didn't think [PG&E] needed to declare bankruptcy ... They're hoping that they can pay less than what people might be entitled to after a liability determination.'\u003ccite>James Gallagher, GOP assemblyman representing areas affected by the Camp Fire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That's how it usually goes. Because of the power that they wield, those entities put themselves in first lien position every chance they get. That's how it tends to work,\" said Ken Cozine, a Santa Rosa resident who is an insurance agent. The flames of the Tubbs Fire missed his house by less than a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Rothchild, who was not directly impacted by the fire but knows people who had to evacuate, said, \"PG&E will find a way to not pay out. That’s just going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Cal Fire also released its finding that PG&E equipment was not at fault in the Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and was responsible for as much as $10 billion in insured property losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher, who represents areas affected by the Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes, told KQED's Lily Jamali:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really disappointing and frustrating,\" he said. \"I really just didn't think that they needed to declare bankruptcy. They still have viable assets. There's going to be a determination of liability with regard to these wildfires, but that hasn't been determined as of yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721866/pge-bankruptcy-chapter-11-timeline\">Into and Out of and Back Into Bankruptcy Court: A PG&E Timeline\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721866/pge-bankruptcy-chapter-11-timeline\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/33026838188_4a699d0ace_k-1020x694.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gallagher is questioning the company's motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, it does seem suspect and I think there's already a lot of distrust of PG&E,\" he said. \"I don't think there's any other way to look at it. They're hoping that they can pay less than what people might be entitled to after a liability determination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lawmakers weighed in on the latest news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disheartening that it has come to this,\" said state Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) in a written statement. \"Bankruptcy is never an ideal option. It will now be crucial for the state to ensure that we are well positioned to protect ratepayers, wildfire victims, the utility workforce and vendors in the process moving forward. My focus and priorities during this process remain the same: ensuring that there is safe, reliable and uninterrupted service for consumers; and that wildfire victims are treated fairly and receive just compensation for their losses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lily Jamali, Marisa Lagos, Steve Mencher, Peter Jon Shuler and Brian Watt contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Although the utility's bankruptcy was largely expected, reaction was nonetheless swift and overwhelmingly negative. 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Legislators, experts and consumer watchdog groups slammed the state’s biggest utility, saying it will ultimately benefit the company at the expense of ratepayers and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is the easy way for them to go. This is the way they can move forward and put everyone at risk.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Jerry Hill\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brad Sherwood, a resident of Sonoma County, said he and his family lost everything but their lives in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. Sherwood, who works for the Sonoma County Water Agency, said he and other survivors are concerned about the news of PG&E’s bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwood said his family was not counting on the utility to help them rebuild, but he is most concerned with what bankruptcy will mean for future wildfire prevention efforts in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wildfires won't stop because of a bankruptcy. Power, I believe, will still be going through those transmission lines ... fire prevention measures must continue, bankruptcy or not,” said Sherwood. “I think PG&E is behind the ball when it comes to fire prevention measures, and I'm concerned that bankruptcy will further put them behind the ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Is Filing for Bankruptcy While Still Solvent\u003c/h3>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At its core, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721763/pge-just-filed-for-bankruptcy-heres-what-happens-next\">Chapter 11 bankruptcy\u003c/a> is aimed at allowing a company to restructure its operations and get rid of some debts when it doesn’t have enough money to pay all those obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what's unusual about this bankruptcy filing is that the utility is still solvent. As part of its filing, PG&E estimated its liabilities at about $51 billion and its assets at more than $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics argue there's no reason for the company to go bankrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the easy way for them to go. This is the way they can move forward and put everyone at risk,” said state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), whose district includes San Bruno, the site of a 2010 gas explosion caused by PG&E equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill points out that ratepayers ended up on the hook for billions of dollars in loans after the utility declared bankruptcy in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ratepayers, as we did with the last bankruptcy, will wind up paying a lot more,” he said. “The victims will probably not get dollar for dollar and PG&E will win. They will come out stronger at the end of the day and probably a more profitable company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Calls for Serious Structural Change at PG&E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bankruptcy will allow PG&E to reorganize, but some say the changes need to go deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The bankruptcy] continues to underscore the need for change at PG&E both in its leadership and corporate culture,” said state Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa). “I think what we've got to focus on right now is safety, reliability and affordability of electric power in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, Loretta Lynch was the president of the California Public Utilities Commission, the agency that regulates utilities. She said the CPUC needs to stand up for ratepayers this time around. She said the last time around, the company got everything it wanted for \"being belligerent\" and fighting the state. She pointed out that no other utilities during that time chose the bankruptcy route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E made out like a bandit. So here we are again 18 years later. None of the other utilities are threatening bankruptcy. Only PG&E. Why? Because they got the store the last time, and they're banking on the fact that this PUC will give them the store,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\">PG&E Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721861/pge-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/e7ee4f62-rs11522_452938222-e1548184779248-1020x707.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hill and other lawmakers agree that the CPUC needs to play a stronger role in what happens next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The PUC could come back with some strong requirements on that reorganization that puts the balance of power more in the hands of the ratepayers, more in the hands of the consumer and the victims, rather than in the pockets of PG&E shareholders,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics are going farther. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, called on Gov. 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There wasn’t even an opportunity for the public to comment, it happened so fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fire Survivors Not Optimistic on Payouts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County residents, who lived through the Tubbs Fire in 2017, said the bankruptcy news was not a surprise, and many seemed resigned to the possibility that fire victims may have to get in line with shareholders, stockholders and creditors before getting any payout from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I really didn't think [PG&E] needed to declare bankruptcy ... They're hoping that they can pay less than what people might be entitled to after a liability determination.'\u003ccite>James Gallagher, GOP assemblyman representing areas affected by the Camp Fire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"That's how it usually goes. Because of the power that they wield, those entities put themselves in first lien position every chance they get. That's how it tends to work,\" said Ken Cozine, a Santa Rosa resident who is an insurance agent. The flames of the Tubbs Fire missed his house by less than a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Rothchild, who was not directly impacted by the fire but knows people who had to evacuate, said, \"PG&E will find a way to not pay out. That’s just going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Cal Fire also released its finding that PG&E equipment was not at fault in the Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and was responsible for as much as $10 billion in insured property losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher, who represents areas affected by the Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes, told KQED's Lily Jamali:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really disappointing and frustrating,\" he said. \"I really just didn't think that they needed to declare bankruptcy. They still have viable assets. There's going to be a determination of liability with regard to these wildfires, but that hasn't been determined as of yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721866/pge-bankruptcy-chapter-11-timeline\">Into and Out of and Back Into Bankruptcy Court: A PG&E Timeline\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721866/pge-bankruptcy-chapter-11-timeline\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/33026838188_4a699d0ace_k-1020x694.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gallagher is questioning the company's motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, it does seem suspect and I think there's already a lot of distrust of PG&E,\" he said. \"I don't think there's any other way to look at it. They're hoping that they can pay less than what people might be entitled to after a liability determination.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other lawmakers weighed in on the latest news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s disheartening that it has come to this,\" said state Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) in a written statement. \"Bankruptcy is never an ideal option. It will now be crucial for the state to ensure that we are well positioned to protect ratepayers, wildfire victims, the utility workforce and vendors in the process moving forward. My focus and priorities during this process remain the same: ensuring that there is safe, reliable and uninterrupted service for consumers; and that wildfire victims are treated fairly and receive just compensation for their losses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lily Jamali, Marisa Lagos, Steve Mencher, Peter Jon Shuler and Brian Watt contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11722060/disappointment-concerns-grow-as-pge-files-for-bankruptcy-protection","authors":["11509","199"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6383","news_24483","news_19542","news_140","news_24802","news_17041","news_21760"],"featImg":"news_11680964","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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