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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2015 file photo, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmates stand guard as flames from the Butte Fire approach a containment line near San Andreas, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is stepping up pressure on Pacific Gas and Electric to fork over billions more in cash to pay thousands of people whose homes burned in wildfires that drove the utility into bankruptcy. The rising tensions were expected to surface at a hearing Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, that has been abruptly postponed by a week. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

PG&E faces potential showdown over its bankruptcy plan

In this Nov. 17, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom during a visit to a neighborhood destroyed by the wildfires in Paradise, Calif. California has long used its status as the nation's most populous state (nearly 40 million people) and the world's fifth-largest economy (about $3 trillion) to pass trend-setting policies. But that role has crystallized in the Trump era, with California Democrats positioning the state as the nation's defense system against rollbacks of environmental and health care laws and the federal crackdown on illegal immigration, among other issues. First-year Gov. Gavin Newsom relishes his role as a Trump adversary and the leader of a state that does things before others. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

‘Terrible job’: Trump rips Gavin Newsom, threatens to cut federal funds for California wildfires

Connor Gorman of Davis, Calif., joins a rally on behalf of Cambodian refugee Tith Ton, who is awaiting parole from a murder conviction but could be deported to Cambodia, at the California Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Immigrant rights groups are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to end policies they say ease the transfer of prison inmates to federal authorities despite California's efforts to provide a sanctuary to those who are in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)

Groups ask California governor to deter parolee deportations

File - In this Oct. 9, 2019, file photo, Pacific Gas & Electric and CalTrans workers stand near the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to speed up the troubled Pacific Gas & Electric bankruptcy case so the company can be restructured in time for next year's wildfire season. Newsom announced Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, he is calling a meeting of wildfire victims and PG&E executives, shareholders and creditors next week to accelerate what Newsom called "a consensual resolution" to the bankruptcy case. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom threatens possible PG&E takeover if no plan is made

The wildfire in Northern California has destroyed dozens of structures. Millions are facing power outages too, as the utility wants to avoid sparking more wildfires. A structure lost to a wildfire called the Kincade Fire is seen in Windsor, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (Guy Wathen/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Californians grappling with rolling blackouts, large wildfires

Flames from the Kincade Fire consume Soda Rock Winery on Sunday, Oct 27, 2019, in Healdsburg, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

The Latest: 2 firefighters burned in California blaze

California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with reporters in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. With hundreds of thousands of Californians again in the dark amid high wildfire danger Thursday, Newsom had a message for voters: "I own this." Newsom again blistered California's utilities, most notably Pacific Gas & Electric, for failures to modernize electrical systems that have led to the need to shut off power to avoid wildfires. But he also went further in personalizing the crisis. "It's on me to make sure this doesn't happen again." (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

California governor “owns” blackouts, takes political risk

Sacramento joining MLS, will begin play in 2022

This Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom during an interview in his office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California's governor is pardoning three more immigrants facing the possibility they will be deported. They are among four pardons and two commutations of youthful offenders announced Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, by Newsom. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California bucks Trump, pushes boundaries of liberal policy: ‘We can assert ourselves at scale’

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gestures during an interview in Sacramento, Calif. The Democrats who rule California took on homegrown tech giants Uber and Lyft over their work force, convinced some of the world's biggest automakers to buck the president on fuel emissions and passed a law that could change college sports. On issues big and small, hotels soon will be forbidden from providing guests with little plastic shampoo bottles, California this year has marched farther left and tried to pull the rest of the country with it. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California relishes role as liberal trendsetter, Trump foe

This Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom during an interview in his office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California's governor is pardoning three more immigrants facing the possibility they will be deported. They are among four pardons and two commutations of youthful offenders announced Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, by Newsom. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom pardons 3 immigrants facing deportation

California governor ends Legislative session with vetoes

FILE - This Jan. 16, 2015, file photo shows pumpjacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, signed a law intended to counter Trump administration plans to increase oil and gas production on protected public land. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

California governor signs bill limiting oil, gas development

FILE -- In this Sept. 18, 2018 file photo protesters with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) hold signs to ban fur in Los Angeles prior to a news conference at Los Angeles City. California will ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products and bar most animals from circus performances under a pair of bills signed Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 by Gov. Gavin Newsom. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel,File)

Correction: California-New Laws story

FILE - In this May 21, 2019 file photo, people rally in support of abortion rights at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a measure, on Friday, Oct. 11,2019, that will require public colleges and universities to offer abortion medication at campus health centers. The bill, SB24, was authored by Sen.Connie Leyva, D-Chino. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California to require abortion medication at public colleges

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FILE -- In this May 20, 2017, file photo California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaks at the California Democratic Party Convention, in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom, a candidate for governor who has made gun regulations a major part of his campaign, was dealt a setback when a federal judge blocked a law set to take effect Saturday that would have barred gun owners from possessing high-capacity ammunition magazines. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

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Newsom has said the regulator’s problems are in the past after his appointment of a new head of the CPUC.

California crisis of fires, blackouts decades in the making →

PG&E officials insisted on the shut-offs for public safety, but infuriated residents and a parade of public officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said cutting off power should be a last resort and that the company regularly botched communications.

California regulators order inquiry into power outages →

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