Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) CEO Bill Johnson earlier this month made a public apology in a courtroom in California for the deaths of 84 people who died in a wildfire started because of faulty equipment used by his company. The company pled guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and agreed to pay compensation totaling $25.5 billion.
Yes, this is the same PG&E featured in the film “Erin Brockovich,” which is based on the discovery PG&E was poisoning employees and residents near the company’s power plant in Hinkley, Calif. That town is still fighting for clean water nearly 25 years after that infamous case.
