Environmental & Energy
Mar. 24, 2020
PG&E, on probation, pleads guilty to 85 felonies
PG&E has struck a plea deal with the Butte County DA, pleading guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2018 Camp Fire, which legal experts say could result in an extension in PG&E’s existing probation from the 2010 San Bruno pipeline blowout. The settlement comes just days after it reached a deal with Gov. Gavin Newsom over its restructuring plan to exit bankruptcy by June.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. agreed to plead guilty to 85 felony counts arising from the 2018 Camp Fire, likely leaving a series of questions for the federal judge overseeing the company's existing criminal probation from a deadly pipeline explosion in 2010, some legal experts said.
The plea deal reached between the utility and Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey was announced Monday, days after PG&E struck a bankruptcy deal wit...
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