SAN FRANCISCO -- Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation's largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by its outdated equipment and neglectful management.
While on probation, PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter for a 2018 wildfire that wiped out the town of Paradise, about 170 miles northeast of San Francisco. Now PG&E faces more criminal charges in two separate cases, for a Sonoma County wildfire in 2019 and a Shasta County fire in 2020. PG&E has denied any criminal wrongdoing in those fires.
"We doubt anyone would seriously contend PG&E's performance has been adequate, or that substantial improvement is not still imperative," Filip's team wrote in a report filed with Alsup late last year. Alsup declined an interview request from The Associated Press to elaborate on his concerns about PG&E.
While acknowledging its problems, PG&E claimed in a report to the judge that its electricity grid is"fundamentally safer" now than in January 2017. It also defended the roughly 40,000 employees and contractors who maintain its operations.
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