Editor’s letter: New US regulations will shake up energy sector

The adoption of a raft of new US legislation to clean up the damage wrought by the global financial turmoil and prevent another crisis is likely to have a profound impact on the energy industry. In this month’s issue of Energy Risk we publish a special report on the new rules and what they are likely to mean in practice for energy firms and financial players in the industry.

At the time of writing the legislation had yet to be formally signed by President Barack Obama, but that was a formality