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CEMA
Weather Update: With the news focused on Harvey and Irma, you may be wondering what the forecast is for Newport next Monday and Tuesday. Well the good news is that we're going to be blessed with outstanding Fall days, clear, sunny, 71 degrees for the high for both Monday and Tuesday of our conference next week, according to Weatherunderground. You can't beat that!
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CEMA
Last week, we completed the series of six public hearings held by DEEP on the new state energy plan. Nearly 70 members participated in these hearings where they hammered home the failure of the state’s natural gas conversion plan, false assumptions about “fully” replacing oil and propane heating with electric heat pumps, the regressive tax on home heating oil and propane, the need to partner with us on promoting Bioheat® use and the need to partner with our motor fuels members on EV charging.
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CEMA
DSS Commissioner Brennan recently met with New Haven area CEMA members in advance of a legislative hearing to review the 2017/2018 energy plan to address ongoing payment issues from last heating season. The Commissioner acknowledged and apologized for the Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) failure to pay nearly $200,000 in fuel deliveries and identified several efforts that are being made to make everyone whole.
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CEMA
ENTECH School Board member George Perrelli of F. Perrelli and Sons Fuel (East Haven), CEMA Board member Ed Ryan of Ryan Oil (Hamden) along with CEMA President Chris Herb recently met with the Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fassano (North Haven) to seek support for the New Haven area vendors who have not been paid for energy assistance deliveries during the 2016/2017 heating season.
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CEMA
Our fall lineup appears below, and as we do every fall, we offer the "Full Operations" class, which upgrades those at Awareness level to Operations level, in addition to our standard Awareness and Operations recert classes. All hazmat drivers need to be recertified at the Awareness level at a minimum, every three years.
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PMAA
The EPA has waived summertime RVP and reformulated gasoline (RFG) requirements across 38 states and the District of Columbia in response to the continuing disruption of the fuel supply distribution chain caused by multiple refinery outages in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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CEMA
CEMA's national association, Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA), secured a regional hours of service waiver for 26 states including Connecticut for interstate motor carriers providing direct assistance to the emergency transporting fuel products into and from the affected states and jurisdictions.
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PMAA
The Trump Administration extended the Jones Act waiver through September 22nd which "will facilitate movement of refined petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, to be shipped from New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico."
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CEMA
Ward Group®, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry, recently named Federated Mutual to the top 50 U.S. based property and casualty companies. Ward Group annually recognizes 50 companies that have excelled at balancing financial safety, consistency, and performance during the past five years.
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Oil and Energy Online
Chris Herb didn’t exactly take a conventional path to his industry leadership role, but you would be hard-pressed to find someone in the state of Connecticut who has worked as effectively for fuel dealers and consumers in this century. Formerly an elected Burgess of Naugatuck, a legislative aide for the Connecticut General Assembly and the Director of Public Support for American Red Cross, Herb joined the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association (CEMA) 17 years ago.
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Connecticut Post
Environmental groups are objecting to the state’s latest energy strategy, saying a draft plan fails to encourage solar power, continues support for costly gas pipelines and will not meet long-term carbon reduction goals.
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Hartford Business
China is preparing to put the brakes on gasoline and diesel cars.
The country, home to the world's largest auto market, is working on a plan to ban the production and sale of vehicles powered solely by fossil fuels, officials say. The Chinese government is following in the footsteps of countries like India, France, Britain and Norway, which have already announced plans to ditch gas and diesel cars in favor of cleaner vehicles in the coming years.
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Utility Dive
Northern Pass has been in front of siting regulators for almost two years now, but developers say they are confident the project will proceed despite the new delay.
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CT News Junkie
In lieu of a broad based increase in the sales tax, Democratic legislative leaders were working on finalizing a budget recently that will include a monthly tax on cellphone bills and certain real estate transactions.
The situation regarding what revenues will be included in the package was so fluid that the Finance, Revenue, and Bonding Committee postponed a vote on the revenue package.
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New Haven Register
This week marks the end of a series of hearings on the state’s proposed 2017 Comprehensive Energy Strategy, which was recently released. The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which produced the 226-page plan, held a hearing recently. The final hearing is scheduled for Thursday evening at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven.
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