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Regulators mull reversing $462M increase in PG&E fire fines

by AP Business Writer
| April 2, 2020 12:03 AM

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California power regulators are weighing a recommendation to back off plans to fine Pacific Gas and Electric an additional $462 million over a series of deadly Northern California wildfires rather than risk that the harsher punishment might scuttle the utility's plan to get out of bankruptcy.

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