S2E16: Pete Quist with Open Secrets discusses campaign finance, lobbying and "dark money" spending by utilities that many see as thwarting the transition to a clean energy grid and economy.

Pete Quist, Deputy Research Director with Open Secrets, a nonprofit dedicated to shining a spotlight on the role of money in politics, discusses the ways utilities employ money in politics and regulation. The spending is often to preserve their monopoly protection, to protect shareholder interests at the expense of consumers, and to thwart market entry by cheaper and cleaner forms of energy needed for the transition to a clean-energy grid and clean-energy economy.