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Over the past 10 years, disasters like superstorms and record-breaking wildfires have made global warming impossible to ignore. 2019 marks the close of the hottest decade on record. It was the decade when people began to see the effects of the climate crisis in their own lives and when efforts to cut down planet-heating carbon emissions really heated up. 
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Ordinarily conservative utilities are throwing everything they can into reducing these risks.
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Some say recent deadly wildfires are a public safety problem that demands more than the standard fire-safety requirements. New ideas include buyouts, strict zoning rules and even fireproof community shelters.
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Fifteen and a half months after one of the most destructive wildfires California has ever seen wreaked historic havoc on Wine Country, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. no longer has to wonder whether it will be blamed for the blaze. State investigators on Thursday cleared PG&E equipment of starting the Tubbs Fire, which incinerated more than 5,600 buildings and killed about two dozen people after it ignited late Oct. 8, 2017 and raced from Calistoga into Santa Rosa. The fire was caused by “a private electrical system adjacent to a residential structure,” according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
After nearly 16 months of investigation, California officials announced Thursday that the most devastating of the 2017 Wine Country fires was sparked by private electrical equipment on a rural property near Calistoga - a finding that leaves Pacific Gas and Electric Co. blameless. As staff writer J.D. Morris reports, the announcement "provides a long-awaited measure of clarity for beleaguered PG&E." Investors sent shares of PG&E up nearly 77 percent before trading was halted Thursday afternoon.
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