Congress is leading a manhunt at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Lawmakers are livid because of a FERC leak of sensitive information about vulnerabilities in the electric grid to the Wall Street Journal last month. The article noted that a coordinated attack on nine key — but unnamed — substations could cause a bicoastal blackout of weeks, even months.

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