{"id":181,"date":"2024-10-03T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=181"},"modified":"2024-10-03T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:36:58","slug":"environmental-initiatives-are-not-exempt-from-antitrust-enforcement-ftc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2024\/10\/03\/environmental-initiatives-are-not-exempt-from-antitrust-enforcement-ftc-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Initiatives Are Not Exempt from Antitrust Enforcement, FTC Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the American Bar Association\u2019s recent antitrust meeting in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Office of Policy and Coordination\u2019s Deputy Assistant Director Synda Mark cautioned companies seeking to collaborate on environmental initiatives that they are not exempt from antitrust enforcement. Mark commented during a panel discussion that antitrust officials will not \u201cturn a blind eye\u201d to anticompetitive conduct, despite corporate promises of the environmental benefits of collaborative conduct, noting that the FTC works only to prevent economic harms and that environmental justice goals do not \u201cseep into the antitrust analysis.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_reminds_companies_there_is_no_environmental_justice_exemption_anticompetitive_conduct_1024.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_reminds_companies_there_is_no_environmental_justice_exemption_anticompetitive_conduct_1024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert <\/em>on the Duane Morris website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the American Bar Association\u2019s recent antitrust meeting in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Office of Policy and Coordination\u2019s Deputy Assistant Director Synda Mark cautioned companies seeking to collaborate on environmental initiatives that they are not exempt from antitrust enforcement. Mark commented during a panel discussion that antitrust officials will not \u201cturn a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2024\/10\/03\/environmental-initiatives-are-not-exempt-from-antitrust-enforcement-ftc-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Environmental Initiatives Are Not Exempt from Antitrust Enforcement, FTC Says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,77,16],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-environmental","tag-ftc"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}