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CEMA
The Connecticut General Assembly approved a state budget prior to adjournment on Wednesday at midnight. The budget includes an additional $861.5 million in revenue in the first year, and $921.3 million in the second year of the budget to help close a $3.7 billion deficit. The budget plays a dangerous game by diverting about $58.2 million in revenue that was supposed to go to the Special Transportation Fund in the first year and $119 million in the second year.
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CEMA
As you travel throughout Connecticut you can’t help but noticed that photovoltaic solar panels are popping almost daily on people roofs. That is because of a law that created a state “renewable portfolio standard(ie. RPS) that requires the use of clean fuels to generate electricity. With that in mind, and the success that the solar industry has experienced under the RPS, CEMA’s Board of Directors approved a proposal that the association has been working on for over two years to incentivize biodiesel blended with ultra low sulfur home heating oil.
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Adapted from Legacy.com
Walter F. Brickowski, 62, passed away on Thursday, May 30, 2019 in Manasquan, NJ surrounded by family. Walter was born June 18, 1956 in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY to the late Walter and Victoria Brickowski. Walter's career spanned over 30 years, beginning with Louis Dreyfus Energy followed by Premcor and Valero Energy. In 2007, he joined Gulf Oil in Boston where he pioneered unprecedented growth, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
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CEMA
A load restriction of 15 tons will be enforced along Route 34 at the Stevenson Dam Bridge until repairs on the roadway in the area are complete. Route 34 carries traffic over the Housatonic River between Monroe and Oxford. The load restriction was decided on by the state Department of Transportation and announced by Monroe police and the Derby City Clerk’s Office. The restriction to 15 tons applies to all vehicles and will remain in place “until needed repairs are designed and completed,” the DOT alert said.
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CEMA
Transporters of hazardous materials, including transporters of placardable quantities of fuel oil, diesel, propane and gasoline, are required to file an annual registration statement with the U.S. Department of Transportation and to pay a fee (see Title 49 CFR Part 107, Subpart G 107.601 - 107.620), which is due on July 1 of every year. Upon registration you’ll receive a hazmat certificate which you should copy and place in every truck carrying product.
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CEMA
The CT Department of Revenue Services (DRS) requires heating oil retailers to register with them by July 1. Note, this is different from your Heating Oil Dealer registration with the Department of Consumer Protection which is due every October 1. This registration applies to retailers only selling heating oil and no other fuels.
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CEMA
Our focus at this year's five Regional Chapter Meetings will be on the past legislative session. With the legislative session ending on June 5, by the time our Chapter Meetings are held, we'll know one way or the other whether these bills will have passed or failed and can report on them: Carbon Tax, Paid Family Leave, Minimum Wage, Online Lotto, Sports Gambling, Thermal RECs, Tolls, Recreational Marijuana, Tax Increases, Mobile Fueling, Cigarette Taxes/Age Restriction, E-Cig Taxes/Age Restriction, Gas Leaks...and much more!
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CEMA
The gas utility tariffs for June are in. You can compare these rates to your own prices. Gas tariffs were unchanged from May. These utility tariffs below are expressed in heating oil gallon equivalents, and so present gas rates on a British thermal unit (Btu) to Btu equivalent basis with heating oil. These are the system expansion tariffs, which apply a surcharge to all residential conversions from heating oil to utility gas. The lower number applies if the home is within 150 feet of the gas main ("on main"), and the higher number applies if the home is more than 150 feet from the gas main ("off main").
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CEMA
Golfers had a spectacular day of golf this past Monday. The weather was ideal, cool but sunny and the Hartford Golf Club was in pristine condition. The course and the clubhouse was among the best we’ve played at. First, thanks to Steve Sack, a Hartford Golf Club member, who sponsored us for the outing at the club. Please visit our golf website, www.cemagolf.weebly.com for updated information and photos.
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From Federated
Question: If someone comes in asking for an employment application but we are not hiring for any positions, are we still required to give them an application?
Answer:
While some employers do prefer to accept job applications even when there are no openings (to keep on file in the event openings become available later on), there is no statutory requirement to our knowledge that employers do so.
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CT News Junkie
A poll released recently by Sacred Heart University’s Institute for Public Policy and the Hartford Courant found 40% of 1,000 Connecticut residents surveyed disapprove of the way Gov. Ned Lamont is handling his job.
The poll found 24.6% approve of how he’s handling the job, while 35.4% were unsure.
“Is it nice to be liked? Sure,” Lamont’s senior adviser Colleen Flanagan Johnson said. “But it’s better to do what you believe is right to help the state that you love.”
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CT Insider
Katie Dykes has sat at the large conference table in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection commissioner’s office many times. But not the way she does now. Now she sits at the head of that table as the third person to lead DEEP since it was created from the old Department of Environmental Protection in 2011. A self-described geek who admits she wears the description energy wonk as “a badge of honor,” Dykes was the deputy commissioner of DEEP’s Energy Bureau from 2012 until 2015 as it created the first-ever energy strategy for the state, including the first organized policy around renewable and clean energy deployment.
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CT News Junkie
A bill designed to crack down on sexual harassment in the workplace and increase the time victims have to bring allegations of sexual assault passed the House recently, 121 to 23.
The legislation, which has been referred to as the “Time’s Up” bill, recently passed unanimously in the Senate and now goes to the governor’s desk.
“The bill is designed to combat the issue of sexual assault and sexual harassment, particularly in the workplace,” said Rep. Steven Stafstrom, a Democrat from Bridgeport.
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Market Watch
Oil futures dropped recently, with U.S. prices entering a bear market, as domestic data revealed a weekly crude supply climb of almost 7 million barrels — the largest in five weeks — to their highest level in nearly two years.
“Crude inventories are now at their highest since July 2017, up nearly 44 million barrels since mid-March,” said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData.
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