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Southern California Edison says nearly a quarter of the utility poles checked in a recent study were overloaded and didn’t meet safety requirements. The Orange County Register says the figure comes from a study that the state Public Utilities Commission …

A phone company has agreed to pay $14.5 million over a 3,800-acre Malibu Canyon wildfire blamed on allegedly overloaded utility poles blown down by Santa Ana winds. The Los Angeles Times reports NextG Networks will pay $8.5 million into California’s …