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Unplugging PG&E is easier said than done
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Unplugging PG&E is easier said than done

Who can—or even wants—to take over this burning hellscape?
How bad is the air in California? As wildfires rage on, it's hard to tell
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How bad is the air in California? As wildfires rage on, it's hard to tell

The 2019 wildfires have laid bare the drawbacks to an air quality monitoring system designed more for measuring large swaths of land over time than for providing real-time, localized data that is more valuable in disasters like wildfires.
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‘This did not go well': Inside PG&E's blackout control room
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‘This did not go well': Inside PG&E's blackout control room

As the utility turned off power to millions of Californians, its website went down and it struggled to communicate with local officials and inform residents.
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