{"id":3773,"date":"2010-02-02T13:03:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:10:21","slug":"pge-spending-millions-to-block-local-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/02\/02\/pge-spending-millions-to-block-local-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E spending millions to block local utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14296650?source=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3774\" title=\"100202_pgande\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100202_pgande.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>PG&amp;E is spending millions of dollars on a statewide initiative that would make it tougher for you to get your power from anyone else. The initiative, one of several appearing on the June 8 ballot, would require two-thirds approval from local voters before cities or counties could choose an alternate energy provider. PG&amp;E says it merely wants to guarantee that taxpayers have a voice if their local governments decide to spend public dollars to get into the power business. But critics say the San Francisco-based utility is trying to sabotage communities eager to buy more power from renewable energy sources like wind and solar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14296650?source=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence| Country: Global |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote link: <a href=\"..\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=17\">PG&amp;E<\/a> |  Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14296650?source=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PG&amp;E is spending millions of dollars on a statewide initiative that would make it tougher for you to get your power from anyone else. The initiative, one of several appearing on the June 8 ballot, would require two-thirds approval from local voters before cities or counties could choose an alternate energy provider. PG&amp;E says it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pge","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}