I live in California, and they (PG&E hired contractors) have trimmed heavily in my rural-ish neighborhood in the past year.
They are just WAAAAY behind. Either California gov’t environmental regs prevented it, or PG&E tried to save money and not do it, or a combination of the two.
“Either California gov’t environmental regs prevented it, or PG&E tried to save money and not do it, or a combination of the two.”
or PG&E spent $2 billion plus following the legal mandate in California for them to buy power from “renewable” sources when, if they needed extra power they could have gotten it much cheaper wholesale from the grid.
PG&E’s problem is they have dutifully done all the “green” stuff the state wanted them to do, as well as all the “diversity” stuff, “minority contractor” stuff, all the “gender equity” stuff and every other kind of progressive agenda the Dims are running. PG&E’s real problem is they have bent over backwards to be exactly the “progressive” corporation the Dims want. And the rate payers are paying for it.