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CEMA
Your company has survived past threats from supply, price and unity competition, but now faces an unparalleled and organized threat from state government. Unlike the other threats, this one has the power to potentially assess carbon taxes harmful to your business, offer financial incentives to convert away from oil, and even legislate you out of business. The strategic push away from carbon emitting sources has reached the point of no return with ultra low sulfur and standard heating oil identified as high-carbon emitting sources, their elimination is a real part of the discussion.
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CEMA
Generation NEXT Energy Pros is a program conceived by CEMA's School Advisory Board and affiliates of the Bioheat® industry to address the need to expand the service-based workforce within our industry. Our goal is to promote the Bioheat®/HVACR industry as a viable career path for trade school students, High School students and others that are interested in the trades and to provide Bioheat® marketers with a resource to find qualified job candidates. Generation NEXT Energy Pros offers an online platform for applicants and Bioheat® marketers to connect.
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CEMA
Our industry remains under attack from numerous forces, and the prospect of widespread electrification will bring even more pressure to bear on individual heating oil companies to hold onto their customers and defend their market share. CEMA continues to look for ways to support its dealers and the industry as a whole, and the availability of NORA funding gives us the ability to do that.
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CEMA
NEFI has reserved blocks of rooms at discounted prices in Providence, RI for its tradeshow at three hotels within short walking distance of the Rhode Island Convention Center– the Hilton, Marriott Courtyard, and the Graduate (formerly the Biltmore). The reservation deadline is within about ten days of this writing so be sure to make your reservations now while rooms are still available. You can make your reservations from the show website here. Providence is within easy driving distance from most points in Connecticut according to Google Maps: 1 hour 30 min. from Hartford, 1 hour 50 min. from New Haven, 2 hours 25 min. from Danbury, and 2 hours 45 min. from Stamford.
CEMA
From time to time CEMA is asked whether government solicitations for information are legitimate, and if so, then are they required. Sometimes these requests are made even more suspicious when they are sent to members by email. This article will look at two such surveys.
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CEMA
Federated Mutual Group was recently named to the top 50 U.S.-based property and casualty companies and Federated Life Company was named to the top 50 U.S.-based life insurance companies. Federated Insurance is exclusively endorsed for property and casualty insurance for CEMA member businesses. Insurance industry analyst Ward Group annually recognizes 50 companies that have excelled at balancing financial safety, consistency, and performance during the past five years. They conducted separate analyses on nearly 3,000 property and casualty companies and 700 life-health companies.
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CEMA
Back to School – Importance of Employee Training
Every day people are injured in the workplace and on our highways. Each year billions of dollars of property are destroyed due to fire and employment related lawsuits are becoming more common every year. We are going to take a look at what can be done to help prevent these losses. This webinar will help you decide what to train your employees on and review some commonly used tools and resources that can make your training easier, effective and more efficient. To register please go to: here.
CEMA
Peter Krajsa, National Energy Improvement Fund
Who wouldn't want free financing?
........But we all know there is no such thing as a free lunch or free financing.
I recently bought a $2,000 mattress and when the salesman offered me "free" financing for 12 months, I said "why not?"
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New England Fuel Institute
The $1 per gallon federal biodiesel tax credit expired on December 31, 2017. NEFI and its allies in the biodiesel industry are urging Congress to enact a multi-year extension that provides greater market certainty; supports continued growth of biodiesel-blended heating oil (commonly referred to as Bioheat® Fuel); and helps incentivize related investments in biodiesel production, blending, storage and distribution.
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WFSB - TV
Stop & Shop is getting in line with the state's new plastic bag tax. The company announced on recently that beginning on August 1, it will eliminate single-use plastic bags at checkout from all store locations in the state. It said it will also charge 10 cents per paper bag starting September 3. The move is in conjunction with the state's plastic bags law, which applies a 10 cents tax per bag and goes into effect on August 1.
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The Wall Street Journal
Energy companies are producing record volumes of natural gas, thanks in part to the U.S. fracking boom. They have ambitious plans to make the cleaner-burning fuel a big part of the global energy mix for decades to come by sending tankers of liquefied gas around the world. But growing public concern over leaks and intentional releases of gas and its primary component, methane, threaten to derail the dominance of gas in the new energy world order.
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The Wall Street Journal
The wood-pellet business is thriving based on the argument that trees are a clean-energy alternative to coal, but the science behind it is facing challenges from researchers who say cutting and burning trees takes a heavy environmental toll. Global imports of wood pellets have jumped in recent years as governments push to reduce reliance on fossil fuels to generate electricity.
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New Haven Register
pplegreen, an Irish company, announced recently it had purchased a 40% stake in 23 service plazas on I-95, I-395 and Route 15 in Connecticut, taking control of their operation along with a consortium of partners.
The consortium of companies entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Project Services LLC., which currently operates the service plazas, as well as its parent holding company, JLIF Holdings, according to the announcement, which was published by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange.
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Yankee Institute for Public Policy
The Connecticut Green Bank paid out $148,526 in severance packages for three employees and allowed one of those employees to remain employed until reaching ten years of service and becoming vested in Connecticut’s pension system, according to State Auditors. According to the audit released recently, the three employees – two senior managers and an associate director – were given 26 weeks’ pay when their positions were eliminated and replaced with lower paying jobs.
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