A WAVE OF LAWSUITS, large and small, have been waged against Vistra Corporation, PG&E and many of their associated companies in the months following an explosive Jan. 16 fire at their battery storage facility in Moss Landing.

A single judge will be assigned to coordinate the cases and will manage all of the common facts and law; but the individual differences will be handled on a case-by-case basis, according to a description of the “mass tort” process on the website of one of the law firms, Danko Meredith.

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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.