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CEMA
The Southern New England Energy Conference is CEMA's premier education event of the year. Realizing that not everyone could attend that conference last month, or even if you did, you weren't able to see all the sessions you wanted to, CEMA is presenting a mini-conference on Oct. 31 featuring some of the top sessions at Newport.
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CEMA
At the CEMA Annual Meeting portion of the Southern New England Energy Conference on Monday, Sept. 24, we elected a board of directors and awarded a Marketer of the Year award and an Associate of the Year award. The following members of CEMA’s board of directors were elected for another term of office at our Annual Meeting.
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CEMA
As of Nov. 1, the state of Connecticut prohibits the sale of prepay/prebuy contracts to residential customers until April 1. Fixed price contracts and other guaranteed price contracts where a customers does not pay for the fuel in advance of delivery is permitted during the moratorium.
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CEMA
CEMA will be holding OSHA/DOT hazmat training in October. Our remaining two classes will be held next week: Awareness certification on Oct. 16, and Operations re-certification on Oct. 17. These seminars train employees, who may come into contact with a hazardous material such as petroleum products, on the latest requirements and regulations concerning hazardous materials.
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CEMA
CEMA is participating in the vendor meetings with DSS and the community action agencies being held around the state this week and next. A list of these meetings, and the Vendor Participation Form (commonly referred to as the "contract" though the Department of Social Services denies that it's a contract) can be found on the DSS website here. CEMA is focusing its attention on two new sections of the "contract."
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CEMA
On October 1st several laws that were passed in the last legislative session went into effect. Two of these new law may have an impact on some CEMA members — one deals with the sale of electronic cigarettes and the other energy efficiency funding (see below). For a full list of new laws, click here.
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PMAA via CEMA
The PMAA UST Task Force continues to express concerns with the EPA Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) regarding E15 compatibility with pipe dope in UST systems. The 2015 EPA UST regulations require tank owners who intend to sell E15 to first demonstrate compatibility with specific UST system components.
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The Wall Street Journal via CEMA
ExxonMobil. is committing $1 million over two years to promote a tax on carbon emissions by corporations, one of the few times an oil company has given money to make fighting climate change a political priority in Washington. As warnings over the negative effects of climate change have grown, national and regional governments around the world have pursued increasingly stringent regulations on fossil-fuel companies.
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The Wall Street Journal via CEMA
Big Oil is betting on natural gas as the fuel of the future, but companies face a challenge to show they can make as much money producing and selling cargoes of gas as they could from tankers of crude. Last week, Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced a liquefied natural gas project in Canada that will cost $14 billion to build, while Exxon Mobil Corp. and partners are expected to approve a multibillion-dollar LNG project in Mozambique in 2019.
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The Wall Street Journal via CEMA
President Trump is moving to allow year-round sale of gasoline containing a higher percentage of ethanol, satisfying campaign promises he made to the Farm Belt, while likely provoking a battle with the oil industry. Mr. Trump has endorsed pushing the maximum to 15% and views it as a way to expand biofuels and help farmers, according to a senior White House official.
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The Connecticut Mirror
Democrat Ned Lamont holds a 13-percentage point lead over Republican Bob Stefanowski in the race for governor, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released recently, while a Sacred Heart University/Hearst Connecticut Media poll has his lead at four points.
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New Haven Register
A 2017 Sierra Club study found that the labyrinth of natural gas pipelines underneath Hartford leak enough to power 214 households a year. Yankee Gas Services — the gas provider for Danbury, Stamford, Norwalk and other Fairfield County towns — has identified 530 miles of leak prone pipelines in need of repair or replacement, testimony before state regulators shows.
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Journal Inquirer
State energy regulators offered assurances this week that they have safeguards to prevent the kind of disaster seen in northern Massachusetts last month, where natural gas fires and explosions killed one person and forced thousands from their homes — even as some in the industry said they're worried that the state is under-reporting leaking lines and not doing enough to fix them.
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The Day
State agents investigating cigarette sales raided a private store on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation this week, a Department of Revenue Services spokesman confirmed. "The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services can confirm that activities were conducted by DRS personnel in the area yesterday as part of an active and ongoing criminal investigation," said Jim Polites, the department's communications director.
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