New today: PG&E got a billion-dollar rate increase approved this afternoon by a 5-0 vote of the CPUC. 💸
Watch #ABC10 tonight at 5/6/6:30pm for coverage of this rate hike, as only the #FirePowerMoney team can tell it.
Don't get us on air? Search for the ABC10 app on your Roku/Fire/Apple/Samsung.
The CPUC is about to vote on a massive rate increase for $PCG.
It's happening in El Centro, far from PG&E territory.
AND-- I can't get the agenda (which usually changes right before the meeting) on the CPUC's website!
New from #FirePowerMoney: we spent the week in #Paradise to go deeper on what the recovery looks like five years later.
It's not about buildings. It's about *people.*
Watch and share here: https://youtu.be/RHlzwxWfF2Q?si=cW8FQim58NT_4fng
I’m in Paradise, #California this week to cover the five year anniversary of the #CampFire.
Going by the numbers, the town is about 1/3 of its way back to pre-fire population.
But numbers can’t tell the whole story here.
The people here have persisted in the face of overwhelming and complex grief. And they’re surrounded by reminders of the worst day of their lives.
Every day, hundreds of people used to come to this spot to do their grocery shopping at the Safeway.
Today, it sits like this:
Here's our latest #FirePowerMoney investigation: PG&E is raising rates in the name of making the power grid safer. But is it happening? Experts have a lot of reasons to worry the answer is no.
🎞️YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/_5d8vWbPNBs?si=S-IvN5j3qHF8JKdS
#PGE #california #abc10 #ABC10originals #utilities #wildfire #wildfires
TONIGHT: PG&E's 16 million customers already pay some of the highest rates in the nation.
Bills keep going up in the name of safety.
But are you getting the safer power grid you're paying for?
WATCH an all-new #FirePowerMoney investigation tonight, only on #ABC10-- at 8:45pm (right after the 49'ers game on Monday Night Football.)
We're honored #ABC10 received the national Edward R. Murrow award for Investigative Reporting.
This was for our #FirePowerMoney story revealing that Gov. Newsom had hired PG&E's longtime law firm to draft legislation bailing the company out of its own #wildfire damage.
🎞️ Watch the winning story here: https://youtu.be/HgHMKq3igEw?si=hqMgu4MecID4x8Gr
Look out Wall Street:
We’re on a boat.
#FirePowerMoney #ABC10 #journalism #California #NewYork $PCG #PGE
I’m in NYC tonight for the national news #Emmy awards. I brought mom as my date!
I’m honored #ABC10 is nominated in both categories recognizing regional reporting: breaking news (for the #CaldorFire) and investigative (for our #FirePowerMoney series on #PGE and Gov. Newsom’s response to the #CampFire.)
We’re nominated alongside phenomenal local reporting from around the country. Grateful to be here! ❤️
#NewsEmmys #Emmys #Journalism #California #Wildfire #Wildfires #TEGNA
Brandon Rittiman