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sacbee.com on 2019-08-16 23:21

PG&E plans to cut thousands of trees to prevent fires. Here’s why hundreds didn’t get chopped

A new report in PG&E’s criminal case found that the utility failed to trim hundreds of trees along its power lines. The report cited shoddy record ...

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