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CEMA
CEMA motor fuels and heating fuels members sent 817 emails to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) opposing the draft energy plan before the deadline on Monday afternoon was reached. Testimony ranged from exploring the technical aspects and limitations concerning heat pumps to electric vehicles and recharging infrastructure.
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CEMA
Republican State Senators Joe Markley (Southington) who is also a candidate for lieutenant governor, Len Suzio (Meriden), Eric Bethel (Watertown) and Heather Somers (Groton) attended the public hearing that were held throughout the state on the Comprehensive Strategy (CES) and provided testimony opposing the proposal to tax heating oil and propane.
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CEMA
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) issued an approval of an alternative life expectancy for underground storage tanks (USTs) used solely for storage of heating oil for on-site consumption. This approval extends the life expectancy of a tank to forty years from the date of installation.
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CEMA
Working late on a Friday may not be always be a good idea when it comes to family, unless you can go home to tell them you played a role in helping Americans in distress during an emergency where their health and safety was at risk. This past month, CEMA members called the office well past the close of business to find our staff here to help them get fuel to people who were in need.
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CEMA
As described in our report below, the Southern New England Energy Conference was a great success, with over 260 total attendees and vendors. There were 33 total breakout sessions, including NORA technical sessions which joined with our conference for the first time.
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CEMA
CEMA held its 67th Annual Meeting last week in conjunction with the Southern New England Energy Conference, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association and the Oilheat Institute of Rhode Island. We offered more sessions than ever, 33 heating fuel, motor fuel, Bioheat and technical sessions in total.
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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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CEMA
The gas utility tariffs for October 2017 are in. While we show the rates below, we are unable to compare them to state average heating oil rates since the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection hasn't updated its heating oil price survey since June 26. Instead, you can compare these rates to your own prices.
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PMAA via CEMA
Today, President Trump released his tax reform plan which would include the biggest cuts and changes in 30 years. The White House plan would reduce the number of total individual rates from seven to three (12 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent) and the top rate would drop from 39.6 percent to 35 percent.
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CEMA
SureCam
CEMA member Goodworks is pleased to offer this new product — a camera system for your trucks and vehicles from the Intelligent Telematics, the largest vehicle camera company in England, now marketing in the U.S. Unlike many more expensive systems on the market, this dash camera system is GPS-enabled, and generates real-time video that can be viewed instantly, back at the home office or stored for later viewing on the web, of road incidents.
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CEMA
Question:
Our employee has tendonitis. His condition has not seen any improvement, if anything he has experienced regression. To date we have conducted two ergonomic assessments. We made the recommended adjustments following both assessments. We have also accommodated the employee throughout his employment with modified duty and modified schedule as dictated by the employee's physician and the employee's feelings for what he can undertake day to day.
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Hartford Business Journal
Ansonia trucking-company operator John Pruchnicki uses nearly every tool in his kit to recruit and retain some of Connecticut's 57,000 or so commercially licensed truck drivers to his payroll. Many of the semis in Pruchnicki's Coastal Carriers of Connecticut fleet are equipped with the same safety features and ergonomics found in today's cars.
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WNPR-FM
A proposal to dramatically rework the state's flagship environmental office is just one of many line-items packed into a complex Republican budget passed by the legislature last week. One item in the bill submitted to Gov. Dannel Malloy proposes eliminating the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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Utility Dive
Consumer and clean energy advocates say high rates of return on new interstate pipelines have led to a slew of unnecessary capacity proposals, including several which are now before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. A new report from Oil Change International, the Sierra Club and Public Citizen notes that pipelines already approved or pending before federal regulators this year could add more than 2,400 new miles of pipeline.
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CSP Daily News
Convenience stores and gasoline brands are part of consumers' lives like any other retail channel. And they are as adept as any retailer at fielding polished, creative TV and web commercials. The spots are part of what makes chains so popular and well-known in their markets and help create customer loyalty.
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Biodiesel Magazine
New Yorkers in downstate counties will soon benefit from cleaner air due to the increased use of Bioheat fuel in heating oil. Legislation signed Sept. 13 by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo requires Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties to follow New York City's lead by blending at least 5 percent biodiesel (B5) into all home heating oil sold by July 1, 2018.
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Eos
Because burning natural gas produces about half as much carbon dioxide (CO2) per unit of energy as coal, many consider it an important transition fuel to carbon-neutral, climate-friendly sources of energy. However, the colorless, odorless gas has a downside: It contains more than 80 percent methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas that absorbs and retains 86 times more energy than CO2 over a 20-year period.
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The Connecticut Mirror
President Donald Trump's tax plan, which he unveiled in Indiana Wednesday, would aid affluent individuals in Connecticut and lower the corporate income tax rate paid by many businesses in the state. Trump's plan would eliminate the estate tax, a federal levy on inheritances valued at more than $5.34 million. By percentage of the population, more federal filers in Connecticut paid this tax than in almost any other state.
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NACS
Fortune reports that Tesla wants to turn Supercharger stations into full-service convenience stores. On Sept. 24 at the FSTEC restaurant technology conference, the news source writes that Tesla CTO J.B. Straubel suggested the luxury electric vehicle maker might be eyeing the c-store industry as its next business venture.
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