PG&E Agrees to $45M Penalty to Settle Action Over 2021 Dixie Wildfire

Utilities increasingly cause of wildfires amid climate change

PG&E has agreed to pay a $45 million penalty to settle an action brought by California’s public utilities regulator for its part in the Dixie Fire in 2021, which burned through five counties in the north of the state and took three months to extinguish.