Bankruptcy judge pushes back on PG&E's plan to route $4M fine through fire victim trust

Utility Dive: The Camp Fire began in Butte County in November, 2018, killing more than 80 people and burning over 150,000 acres of Northern California. State investigators and PG&E both identified one of the utility's transmission lines as the origin of the fire, and the district attorney of Butte County later launched a criminal investigation into the blaze.

The guilty pleas to involuntary manslaughter and the fine are part of a deal to resolve that investigation,

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