The enviro rules have changed such that they cannot properly clear brush from around/under power lines.
Happening in NM, too.
I have a stretch of mountain land with a large electrical easement across it. For 50 years, the utility has dutifully cleared it.
The utility cannot do so legally, even with my permission. I can, legally to make way for cattle. So I have. Mind you I don’t drive cattle from one end of my fence line to the other for no reason. But I might see reason to.
Betcha they wish they had back those power plants at Page AZ, Waterflow and Kirtland that Obama had shut down and destroyed.
Are the ones at Craig still running? Last I heard all those areas still have huge amounts of coal Clinton locked up in National Monuments to keep it from being mined.