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  • Published: Aug 23rd, 2009
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ANALYSIS – CFTC muscles into emerging U.S. carbon market


* CFTC officials expect carbon market to hit $2 trillion
* Senate expected to undertake which agencies to regulate
* Market experts say CFTC move is “premature”

NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A proposal by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to oversee a greenhouse gas contract on a voluntary Chicago trading exchange shows the agency is staking out its territory before Congress decides which agencies should regulate the country’s burgeoning carbon market.

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