California lawmakers bury bills to bury electric lines
In the wake of last year’s deadly wildfires, California lawmakers proposed legislation to reduce future risk by reducing electric line exposure. Those ambitions didn’t amount to much, though. Two bills to encourage utilities to move lines off of poles and place them underground, particularly in high fire risk areas were scrapped. A third one was neutered, but is still moving forward.
Senate bill 70 was passed unanimously by the senate and is awaiting its fate in the assembly.… More