100 - Katherine Blunt, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid

August 31, 2023 00:31:29
100 - Katherine Blunt, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid
History of California Podcast
100 - Katherine Blunt, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid

Aug 31 2023 | 00:31:29

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Show Notes

Today, we have Katherine Blunt on the program. Katherine is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid. The book, a national bestseller, won the 2022 Golden Poppy award for nonfiction.

Her coverage of PG&E, a collaboration with two colleagues, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and earned a Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business journalism.

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