(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) If you’ve lived in California for a while, odds are Pacific Gas and Electric’s bankruptcy filing this week isn’t the first time you’ve heard about big problems at the state’s largest utility. And then there was the horrific 2010 San Bruno gas explosion, which killed eight people and destroyed a neighborhood. The company was fined and convicted of criminal safety violations. “Does a judge turn a blind eye and let PG&E continue what you’re doing, let you keep killing people?” United States District Judge William Alsup said, according to The Mercury News.

Source: New York Times January 31, 2019 14:21 UTC