Updated Sept. 22 Ratepayer and local power advocates and others are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject a bill on his desk that would allow Pacific Gas & Electric and the other two investor-owned utilities to recover up to $100 billion from ratepayers to pay for their undergrounding of power lines in high fire-threat areas.
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