Melody Petersen

Edison’s wires continue to spark scores of wildfires, even though the utility has charged billions of $ to customers to prevent them. Behind the problem: a state law signed by Gov. Newsom that sharply reduced utilities’ liability for fires they cause https://t.co/cCarQa8kM7

An electric line repaired after the deadly Eaton wildfire burst into flames last week. The line was less than a mile from where the wildfire ignited on Jan. 7 under an Edison transmission tower. https://t.co/gNPq9X8EgS

Regulators criticized SoCal Edison for falling behind on inspecting transmission lines just months before the deadly Eaton fire. They said inspections of where lines had been spliced together were failing to find problems that might cause the wires to fall https://t.co/m6ylp4GuDO

Calif. has built so much solar power it increasingly goes to waste. This is raising customer electric rates – already twice the nation’s average. The winners: AZ and other states, which CA pays to take the excess. Also making💰: Wall Street traders https://t.co/WaNLNMNPuU

RT @EWidera: From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as s…

Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” https://t.co/bQz0ucIxUa

In California, power-hungry data centers needed for AI increase electric bills and raise risk of blackouts https://t.co/QTZGv2RFeW

New drug’s deadly side effect obscured by ‘soothing acronym,’ doctors say. Industry-funded group at the Alzheimer’s Association named the complication ‘ARIA.’ It has nothing to do with music https://t.co/LhQKadqkjh

California solar project set to raze thousands of protected Joshua trees, many thought to be a century old. “Let’s destroy the environment to save the environment. That seems to be the mentality” https://t.co/ORwXksUglz

Bill to scrutinize new electric fee that will hit most California households dies in Assembly committee. The fee was pushed through by the Newsom administration and asked for by PG&E https://t.co/Wxk99HBoGQ

Ignoring complaints by electric customers across California, a state panel voted unanimously Thursday to fundamentally change how power is billed by adding a new monthly fixed fee https://t.co/p9R5A9odvc

With almost no public debate, California lawmakers passed a complex energy bill that upended how most homes are billed for electricity by reducing the incentive to turn out the lights. The legislation was what PG&E asked for https://t.co/JLCOUjcP5n

RT @deb_cohen: Who benefits from plans to expand the definition of Alzheimer’s disease? Drug and testing companies, for sure. For people—wh…

A bill that could decrease the estimated 5 million prescription errors made by California pharmacies each year now sits on @GavinNewsom's desk. Here is my story detailing how patients have been harmed by these mistakes https://t.co/LhUrIeC04l