Gavin Newsom is still a corporate stooge.
Case in point, Newsom buried a bailout for fire liability for Southern California Edison in a bill nominally about protecting the environment.
Seriously, just f%$# the investor owned utilities. Let them go bankruipt, and pick up their infrastructure for pennies on the dollar and make a publicly owned utility.
Standing behind a lectern emblazoned with the words “Cutting Utility Bills,” Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last month a package of energy bills that he said “reduces the burden on ratepayers.”
Tucked into one of those bills: a paragraph that could allow Southern California Edison to shift billions of dollars of Eaton fire damage costs to its customers.
Among other things, the bill allows Edison to start charging customers for any Eaton fire costs exceeding the state’s $21-billion wildfire fund.
“I was shocked to see that,” said April Maurath Sommer, executive director of the Wild Tree Foundation, which tracks state government actions on utility-sparked fires. “It’s effectively a bailout.”
Other amendments in the 231-page bill known as SB 254 helped not just Edison, but all three of the state’s biggest for-profit utilities, further limiting the costs that they and their shareholders would face if the companies’ equipment ignited a catastrophic wildfire.
Previous legislation championed by Newsom, a 2019 bill known as AB 1054, already had sharply limited the utilities’ liabilities for wildfires they cause.
I have no problem with Newsom trolling Donald Trump on social media, but he does not deserve your vote for any position in any Democratic primary.
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