Reporter Matt Binder reports on Pacific Gas and Electric’s sponsorship of a expanded energy efficiency ordinance in Berkeley, California. The utility fought the city’s initial conservation regulation a decade ago, but is now leading the charge to write more comprehensive efficiency standards into law.
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