Pacific Gas and Electric faces an uncertain future

Were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic recession that followed, California’s biggest political story of the year would be the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric, the huge utility that serves most of Northern California.
A year and a half ago, PG&E declared bankruptcy due to almost countless billions of dollars in potential liability for killer wildfires caused by failures of its rural transmission lines during high winds — its second bankruptcy in two d