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CEMA
We're pleased to hold our 2016 Golf Outing at the Wallingford Country Club, one of the oldest, most venerable clubs in the state. Founded in 1898, the initial course was ready to play by 1900. Known for its lush fairways and excellent greens, the best way to describe the picturesque layout of the Wallingford Country Club is as a tale of two nines.
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CEMA
As we've previously noted, Connecticut DMV is overhauling the CDL license process, both for renewing and new operators. The following is a summary for bot renewal of licenses and obtaining new ones.
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PMAA via CEMA
The U.S. DOT's Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) requires hazardous material transporters to register and pay a fee each year in return for a certificate of operation. PHMSA began mailing the 2016-2017 registration information to HAZMAT transporters earlier this month. Only those with expiring DOT PHMSA HAZMAT registration certificates must re-register before July 1, 2016 or risk losing authority to operate and pay substantial civil penalty. The validity of HAZMAT registration certificates are checked at roadside inspections.
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CEMA
We return to the Hyatt Regency in Newport, Rhode Island, for our Annual Meeting and our joint Southern New England Energy Conference. The hotel is a CEMA member favorite venue, located on Goat Island in Newport, right on the water of Newport Harbor. The event is also a joint education conference with the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association and the Oil Heat Institute of Rhode Island. Online hotel reservations may be made here.
CEMA
Two articles in the Wall Street Journal last week focused on lowering 401(k) retirement plan administrative fees, which means higher returns on investment for your employees and plan participants. As reported here, an explosion of information about plan fees has helped increase bargaining power for companies in negotiations with fund providers.
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Federated Insurance via CEMA
Question: Our firm is in the process of interviewing candidates for an associate position. We have held phone interviews with several candidates and selected some of them for in-person interviews. One of the candidates selected for an in person interview has shared the following information with us.
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Power Engineering
Berkshire Power Co. and Power Plant Management Services agreed to plead guilty and pay $8.5 million in fines on felony charges that workers tampered with emissions control monitors and submitted false information at a gas-fired plant in Massachusetts. BPC owns the Berkshire Power Plant and PPMS manages it.
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The Boston Globe
For the first time in five years, power plants across New England are producing more carbon emissions, dealing a setback to Massachusetts' legally mandated efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and raising concerns that reduced production of nuclear energy will undercut environmental gains.
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Foley Carrier Services
Anybody who has gone through the process of obtaining a DOT number has had some experience with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Oftentimes smaller businesses and owner operators assume their time with the FMCSA ends when that process is complete. We tend to think of the FMCSA as the agency whose primary responsibility is to monitor multi-driver, long-haul trucking fleets.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A recent natural gas pipeline explosion in Westmoreland County sent an injured man to the hospital, damaged two homes, charred trees and melted a road, with the intense blaze that followed triggering waves of sound, heat and panic through the surrounding area.
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American Energy Coalition
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is expected to rule on the controversial issue of whether utilities can charge ratepayers a surcharge to underwrite the construction of privately owned new natural gas pipelines, according to a recent article in the Boston Herald.
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The CT Mirror
The House of Representatives has brought Connecticut's latest budget saga to a close. The Democrat-controlled House voted 74-70 to adopt a $19.76 billion budget that closes a nearly $1 billion hole in the 2016-17 fiscal year without raising taxes or tapping Connecticut’s modest emergency reserve. Eight Democrats joined with all 62 Republicans present to oppose the measure.
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The CT Mirror
The Senate has voted to rebalance Connecticut's credit card in the face of shrinking tax revenues, canceling or delaying about $1 billion in financing for a wide array of projects and programs. Outside of this rebalancing process, the bond package for the 2016-17 fiscal year also authorizes $382 million in new borrowing for municipal school construction, down significantly from financing for local schools approved in recent years.
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