Energy Antitrust

BOSTON — The First Circuit upheld the dismissal of a wholesale energy purchaser’s lawsuit against two New England energy companies accused of violating antitrust laws by manipulating natural gas pipeline capacity. The suit was brought after economists published a report alleging the companies increased electricity prices each year by about 20% by “buying up and refusing to release excess transmission capacity on the Algonquin pipeline."

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