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PG&E making strides
to maintain state secure
Your Jan. 5 editorial calling for a state takeover of PG&E begins with this problem: “Elevate your hand if you happen to imagine PG&E will meet the security requirements established as a part of the deal for the utility firm’s emergence from chapter.”
My hand is up — together with my 40,000 PG&E coworkers and contract companions who're devoted to ending catastrophic wildfires.
This can be a new PG&E, with new management and a brand new approach of doing enterprise. We're taking daring actions to scale back danger throughout each a part of our system, day by day.
These efforts are working. Whereas there’s extra to do, I'm assured the modifications we’ve made throughout my first 12 months as CEO are making California safer.
Right here’s my problem: I invite your editorial board to go to our wildfire command heart for a firsthand take a look at every little thing we’re doing to fulfill our security commitments — then share that along with your readers.
Patti Poppe
CEO, PG&E Company
Utility’s tree trimming
a program run amok
Re. “PG&E takeover wanted to finish the lethal fires,” Web page A12, Jan. 16:
In an settlement made in 2020 to get off probation, PG&E agreed to enhance its security requirements by prudent trimming alongside its energy strains. As an alternative, it has gone on a rampage.
It's chopping massive, fire-resistant timber which pose small danger of fireplace, eradicating shade breaks and neglecting ground-level gasoline load. It's lowering its personal legal responsibility by rising public fireplace danger. Many irate landowners in not less than three counties have charged that their favourite previous timber have been reduce with out their data, once they weren't residence. The buffer alongside Humboldt Redwoods State Park is being butchered and there are tree-sits.
One felonious company shouldn't be allowed to each management our energy and play with our lives. The entire goal of the CPUC is to guard residents by regulating utilities, and with PG&E it’s well past time for motion.
Ellen Taylor
Misplaced Coast League
Petrolia
SJSU shift to on-line
retains college students secure
The Jan.14 information “Virus surge pushes SJSU to delay in-person lessons” (Web page B1) is commendable to make sure the well being and security of our scholar neighborhood amidst the tremendous contagious omicron variant.
In the meantime, the choice by interim President Steve Perez to start on-line lessons will save the semester.
Professor Baltej Singh Mann
San Jose
Sirhan’s slaying took
greater than a candidate
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, was interviewed by Atlantic, the place she acknowledged that she is gratified that her father’s murderer was not granted parole by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Kennedy was so cherished by America that he was the front-runner, anticipated to be elected president within the November 1968 election. She stated, “We misplaced our father, my mom misplaced her husband, however our nation suffered the ensuing election of Richard Nixon, whose Southern technique divided ournation in ways in which proceed to today.”
Nixon’s election as president elevated Henry Kissinger as his nationwide safety advisor, who managed the warfare in Vietnam. The warfare brought on the loss of life of as many as 3.4 million People, Vietnamese and different combatants in Vietnam.
The murderer killed a lot a couple of man, he killed the promise of our nation’s therapeutic.
Gil Villagran
San Jose
We will carry nation
by defeating COVID
Concerning media and political criticism about President Biden and his job efficiency in his first 12 months of workplace, I take a unique view.
I thank President Biden for bringing stability, sanity and respect again into the White Home – clearly an enchancment that's making the USA of America higher.
Now, if the populace will take accountability for his or her actions by sporting masks, observing social distancing, avoiding massive occasions and getting vaccinated, COVID can be much less of a menace and the financial system will enhance.
Barbara Coats
San Jose
As local weather continues
to heat, we should act
As individuals, we like to set information of accomplishment, however driving one other consecutive 12 months, 2021, to membership within the hottest eight years membership, is alarming. This pattern is accelerating per consultants in “Warmth stays on: Earth hits sixth warmest 12 months,” (Web page A8, Jan. 14). The explanation: we hold pumping carbon into the environment. 2021 established one other 12 months of upper emissions, 7% greater as forecasted by EIA.
Let’s set a unique report for 2022; let’s make it the 12 months the place we discover widespread floor once more, as earth inhabitants, and at last go sturdy local weather coverage. Even Sen. Joe Manchin suggests he’s prepared to search out settlement on local weather parts of the Construct Again Higher proposal. Name your lawmakers and ask for his or her help of local weather motion, and even higher a carbon price and dividend coverage, essentially the most instant and equitable solution to drop emissions 50% by 2030; a report worthy of our achievement.
Julie Steury
Mountain View