Burning Down a House to Show How to Build for Wildfire Defense March 20, 2019 By Don Jergler After only a year into his job as CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety,...
Deadly 2017 California Wildfire Found Sparked by Edison Power Lines March 14, 2019 By Steve Gorman The devastating Thomas Fire that killed two people and destroyed more than 1,000 structures northwest of Los Angeles in December...
Forest Management After Fires a Focus for California Agency March 7, 2019 By Sudhin Thanawala After successive years of devastating wildfires, California’s fire agency has announced a plan that would dramatically increase the removal of...
Judge Orders PG&E Compliance With Fire-Safety Laws March 6, 2019 By Joel Rosenblat A federal judge is requiring PG&E Corp. to abide by rules governing how the utility operates its power lines in...
Opinion: California’s Wildfires Burn Our Climate Illusions March 4, 2019 By Liam Denning Joan Didion’s “Holy Water,” written in 1977, is a paean to the elaborate engineering that supplied her taps in Malibu...
Filings Show PG&E Delayed Key Power Line Safety Overhaul February 28, 2019 By Ankur Banerjee and Nichola Groom Shares of PG&E Corp fell about 3 percent after federal filings showed that the power utility had delayed a safety...
California Weighs Buying Disaster Insurance Policy to Cover Wildfire Costs February 14, 2019 By Don Jergler California’s insurance commissioner and a lawmaker want to the state to consider buying insurance in the private market to cover...
Firefighters Endangered During California Blaze, New Report Shows February 11, 2019 Poor communication, short staffing and infighting among agencies may have endangered firefighters who nearly died during the massive Mendocino Complex...
PG&E Vows to Improve Wildfire Prevention February 8, 2019 By Paul Elias The nation’s largest utility is promising to overhaul its wildfire-prevention measures in response to growing legal, financial and public pressure...
Boeing Sued for Negligence in Southern California Wildfire February 7, 2019 By Edvard Pettersson Boeing Co. was accused of negligence tied to a wildfire that tore through Malibu, California, in November and that purportedly...