{"id":77224,"date":"2019-03-29T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=77224"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:23:10","slug":"governor-newsom-cautions-pge-over-potential-new-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=77224","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom Cautions PG&#038;E Over Potential New Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;On Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom sent a cautionary letter to executives at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&amp;E) over their presumed intent to reconstitute their board of directors with out-of-state executives with little to no experience in California, and inadequate expertise in utility operations.\u00a0 The letter was a strong rebuke of the utility, stating that its intended board would be more \u201cbroken public trust and its responsibilities to ratepayers, wildfire victims, and employees,\u201d while asserting that the state and its people deserve better treatment, and imploring the utility to look for Californians who have experience to provide its leadership.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RCRC_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RCRC_logo.jpg 274w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RCRC_logo-124x90.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Governor Newsom formed a \u201cstrike team\u201d in February 2019 to advise the state on PG&amp;E\u2019s bankruptcy proceeding and gave the group 60 days to map out a plan to help ensure that ratepayers\u2019 service remains intact while wildfire victims get justice and ratepayers and employees remain protected.\u00a0 Results from the team\u2019s efforts are expected within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Newsom\u2019s letter can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3.28.19-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;On Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom sent a cautionary letter to executives at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&amp;E) over their presumed intent to reconstitute their board of directors with out-of-state executives with little to no experience in California, and inadequate expertise in utility operations.\u00a0 The letter was a strong rebuke of the utility, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RCRC_logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}