California Burning The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09MVBT7V8 | 2022 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 267 MB
A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California's largest utility company that led to countless wildfires—including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise–and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history.