“The Wild Tree Foundation, an environmental group, also is calling on the commission to vote against the Thomas fire settlement agreement. The group says that documents from investigators at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Ventura County Fire Department and the commission’s safety and enforcement division show that Edison “failed to act reasonably and prudently.”
“This is not the first time the commission has bailed out utilities for catastrophic wildfires and it will likely not be the last,” said April Maurath Sommer, the foundation’s executive director.
If the commission approves the plan Thursday, Sommer said, Edison would recover most of what it paid to victims of the Thomas fire “by raising electricity rates on those very victims themselves.”” (January 29, 2025) read more