Despite years of Maui wildfire warnings, Hawaii Electric the Hawaii utility giant did little and spent more on lobbying than prevention

"(insert company) knew about potential deadly climate disaster yet did not want to spend money to stop it" is becoming an unfortunately frequent headline. Common themes include: gutting safety measures to make more money for shareholders, ineffective or inadequate regulation that essentially allows these companies to do whatever they want until a tragedy happens and shines a spotlight on them, and some ceo getting 'fired' (with severance, no doubt) as an easy scapegoat for the company to tide things over until public outrage has died down.