In a setback for AT&T, a bill that provided a pathway for the telecommunications company to be released from its designation as carrier of last resort for most of its territory was pulled from a hearing early this week, making it unlikely to resurface in this year’s legislative session.

Assembly Bill 2797, which originally dealt with a license for horse racing, was gutted and reintroduced by Assemblymember Tina McKinnor, D-Inglewood. On Monday, McKinnor requested that the bill be canceled following concerns raised by the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.