Many U.S. utilities “adjust” their tree-trimming and their fiscal budgets in similar ways. This despite the fact that there is something utilities know and that their customers (including most of Congress) remain ignorant of—in the United States today, as in 2003 (and as in 1994), the greatest threat to the security and reliability of our electrical infrastructure is foliage. Trees most especially, though kudzu and its ilk are troublesome creepers in their own right.
