CFTC reveals members of rebooted energy committee
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) named the members of its reconstituted Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (Eemac) on January 26.
Eemac is designed to provide the agency with input from energy companies and industry associations. CFTC chairman Timothy Massad appointed commissioner Chris Giancarlo as the committee's sponsor in September last year. Speaking to Energy Risk in October, Giancarlo (pictured right) said Eemac will focus on
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