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verification and failed to prepare an adequate communication plan for manual operation of the pipe line. 3 Less than a year later, the lack of a plan for manual opera tion is alleged to have contributed to the national impacts when the pipeline remained out of ser vice after a cyberattack. PHMSA proposed a civil penalty close to $1 million. 4 “The 2021 Colonial Pipeline incident reminds us all that meeting regulatory standards designed to mitigate risk to the public is an imperative,” said PHMSA Deputy Administrator Tristan Brown. 5 In August 2023, a wildfire broke out on Maui that killed over 100 people, and rescue efforts were still underway in Hawaii as of September 2023. Maui County filed a lawsuit against Hawaii Electric Co. (HECO). The lawsuit alleges that HECO was warned of the circumstances that caused the fire a year earlier, referring to a 2022 shareholder report stating that climate change and the result ing effects would be a substantial factor to consider as wildfires Hawaiian Electric Co. (Maui Wildfires)

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