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Utilities
PG&E’s $7.5B securitization: A bellwether for utility efforts to cover the costs of climate change?
Wildfire liability financing under scrutiny in California could presage efforts in other states to offset costs of coal plant retirements and climate-change mitigations.
By Elizabeth McCarthy .