{"id":17643,"date":"2025-10-22T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17643\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:28:16","slug":"do-you-support-sb-254-to-help-protect-california-from-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17643\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you support SB 254 to help protect California from wildfires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute language that made it onto Senate Bill 254, a utility reform bill, could put the cost of damages from the Eaton fire onto Edison customers.<\/p>\n<p>Policy makers added a last-minute adjustment to Bill 254 that could make customers pay for the damage of the Eaton fire if the cost goes over the 21 billion dollar budget.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown how much the general public would have to pay.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/last-minute-language-in-utility-reform-bill-could-shift-eaton-fire-damages-to-ratepayers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/last-minute-language-in-utility-reform-bill-could-shift-eaton-fire-damages-to-ratepayers\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Last-minute language in utility reform bill could shift Eaton fire damages to ratepayers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Toney with Turn, a utility reform network, says that it could take 2 to 3 years to see if the 5 million Edison utility customers will have to pay for costs from the Eaton fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last-minute language that made it onto Senate Bill 254, a utility reform bill, could put the cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,13980,4300,15077,15078,15075,15076,535],"class_list":{"0":"post-17643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-damages","12":"tag-eaton-fire","13":"tag-edison-customers","14":"tag-ratepayers","15":"tag-sb-254","16":"tag-utility-reform","17":"tag-wildfires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}