EMP S2E15: Climate activists David Pomerantz and Jean Su explain the impetus behind a petition asking the FTC to investigate anticompetitive practices by utilities to protect their monopoly status and stymy market entry by competitors.

David Pomerantz of the Energy and Policy Institute and Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity explain the impetus behind a recent petition in which hundreds of public interest groups and other entities asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the monopoly electric utility industry and its efforts to preserve and enhance their monopoly status and stymy market entry by competitors and clean energy resources.

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