A bailout for the Texas energy market?

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7. I don't get it. Shouldn't the companies be liable

like what happened here a while back?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/columbia-gas-massachusetts.html

Massachusetts Gas Company to Plead Guilty After Fatal Explosion
Columbia Gas has agreed to sell its business in the state and pay a $53 million fine, the authorities said.
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As part of the plea agreement, NiSource, the parent company of Columbia Gas, will “undertake their best reasonable best efforts” to sell Columbia Gas of Massachusetts and end all gas pipeline operations in the state, prosecutors said. The penalty was the largest criminal fine imposed under the federal Pipeline Safety Act, they said.

“When we were done with the investigation, what was very clear was that the company as a whole had simply failed to do what it was supposed to do to maintain the public safety, and had in fact acted with what we call flagrant disregard for the public safety,” Andrew E. Lelling, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said at a news conference on Wednesday.