California Governor Rejects PG&E Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday rejected a bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by PG&E Corp.
California Governor Rejects PG&E Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan
California Gov. Gavin Newsom during an interview in his office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2019. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday rejected a bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by PG&E Corp., the state’s largest investor-owned utility, saying its proposal fails to meet the requirements of a recently enacted wildfire law.

The decision by Newsom, sent to PG&E in a letter, complicates the company’s push to exit bankruptcy and provide billions of dollars to victims of devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018 sparked by the utility’s power lines.