Energy & Environmental Markets Advisory Committee

The Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC) is a statutorily mandated advisory committee, which conducts public meetings; submits reports and recommendations to the Commission (including dissenting or minority views, if any); and otherwise serves as a vehicle for discussion and communication on matters of concern to exchanges, firms, end users, and regulators regarding energy and environmental markets and their regulation by the Commission.

Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger sponsors the EEMAC.  Lauren Fulks serves as the Secretary for the committee.

Committee Charter (PDF)

Meetings

Date Meeting Details

Meeting to discuss the Commission’s proposed rules with respect to position limits, trade options, and its recent final interpretation concerning forward contracts with embedded volumetric optionality and how these initiatives will impact energy and environmental markets. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss the Commission’s proposed rules seeking to implement position limits and how these proposals will impact energy and environmental markets. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss position limits and hedge exemptions, regulatory report and legislative proposals, and carbon and other emissions trading markets. Full details here.

First meeting of the expanded Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee to include carbon dioxide and other emissions trading markets and will discuss energy markets and legislation pending on Capitol Hill to regulate the role of speculators in commodity markets. Full details, including agenda, here.

Meeting to discuss energy market issues including transparency in the energy markets and the role of index trading and energy trading on foreign boards of trade. Full details, including agenda, here.