Environmentalists argue PacifiCorp’s wildfire liability burden is fueled by coal-protecting bills • Utah News Dispatch

Environmentalists argue PacifiCorp’s wildfire liability burden is fueled by coal-protecting bills • Utah News Dispatch

Coal is stored outside the Hunter coal-fired power plant, operated by PacifiCorp, in Emery County on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)When Berkshire Hathaway bought PacifiCorp — Rocky Mountain Power’s parent company — in 2005, stakeholders didn’t consider the losses future devastating wildfires in the West would bring.  It was a mistake to keep PacifiCorp’s structure and not carve it up into the states tha…