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CEMA
A bill that will create a new payroll tax will affect approximately 104,000 employers who employ 1.5 million people who will be eligible to take up to 12 weeks paid leave per year, has advanced to the state Senate for consideration.
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CEMA
Three bills to legalize, regulate and monetize the recreational use of marijuana are moving through the committee process and will ultimately come before the General Assembly for consideration. CEMA has communicated our concerns about the impact that legalization would have on CDL drivers who are not impaired at the time of a random drug test, but test positive.
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CEMA
The CEMA Golf Outing is the premier energy industry golf outing in Connecticut. While we have averaged some 120 players per year, last year we had 132 players at Foxwood's Lake of Isles and the year before we had 138 players at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell. Our goal is to choose top courses around the state, that members want to play.
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CEMA
Part I: "Predictive Analytics – Using Your Data to Stay One Step Ahead of Your Customer" — Danny Silverman, Angus Energy
According to Google, "in 2019, the most successful marketers will begin to predict what people want." We must prepare ourselves to meet the expectations of our customers in order to maintain and grow our fuel business. Data are key to your company's future.
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CEMA
Sharon Peterson Reception Thursday, May 9, 6 - 7:15 p.m., Washington Marriott at Metro Center, Washington, D.C. Please join us in Washington at the annual PMAA Conference at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center for a special reception for Connecticut's own Sharon Peterson, Apple Oil, the first woman chair of the PMAA board of directors.
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CEMA
As the state is pushing consumers to heat with electricity, we thought we'd present the real cost of electric heat, compared to heating oil. First we look at the tariffs the electric utilities file with PURA, the state's regulatory authority. Once we calculate the tariffs, and add the utilities' supply charges, we get a total cost in Kilowatt hours (KWH).
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CEMA
This is a recurring question we get from members, that we just answered last week for someone — Is there sales tax on labor for a service job? First we must distinguish between service/maintenance and installation work. For service or maintenance work, there is sales tax on the entire job.
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CEMA
Registrations are strong for the 4th Annual Women in Energy Conference from Sunday, May 19 to Monday, May 20 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This event will coincide with the Eastern Energy Expo and feature an empowering two-day program filled with education and networking. This year's conference theme is "Connecting, Empowering, and Succeeding."
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CEMA
Today, April 11, 2 p.m. EDT
Federated Insurance
Registration is required to join this event. If you have not registered, please do so now here.
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The Connecticut Mirror
After only a few months on the job, William Tong already seems to be grasping the reality of being Connecticut's attorney general in the age of Donald Trump: Lots of legal action and the requisite press releases that go with it. An outsized portion of that work continues to involve environmental issues.
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WBUR-FM
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Lori Trahan said Monday they will introduce federal legislation aimed at increasing gas pipeline safety, in response to explosions and fires in the Merrimack Valley last fall. Proposed changes include subjecting more pipeline projects to approvals by professional engineers and requiring onsite monitoring of gas pressure during pipeline construction work.
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Overdrive Magazine
The U.S. Department of Transportation intends to propose a rule that would change federal hours of service regulations for truck drivers. Nearly seven months to the day after DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration began soliciting feedback for a potential overhaul to hours regs, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao took to a stage before a packed crowd at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville to make the announcement on March 29.
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The Connecticut Mirror
Jeff Wieser remembers how, as a newly elected member of the Westport Representative Town Meeting nearly a dozen years ago, he carried his cellphone on his daily runs so he could document the plastic bag litter strewn around his coastal town. Wieser's photos became part of the debate the town was having as it considered a ban on single-use plastic bags — those checkout freebies that come mainly from grocery stores.
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