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CEMA
The Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) is conducting their annual audit of all registered and active HODs to determine if they are selling guaranteed price contracts for fuel delivery to customers. These include any fixed, capped or pre-buy contracts.
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CEMA
CEMA's annual holiday party has always been a very popular event for members to spend a relaxing social evening before the onset of the holidays, New Year, and (for fuel retailers and wholesalers) the onset of heating season. This year we're holding our party at an upscale boutique hotel in West Hartford, the Delamar.
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CEMA
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) released a report last week that would install tolls every 6.6 miles along a 539 mile stretch including interstate 95, 84, 91, 395, 691 and 291 along with rout 2, 9, 8 and 15. The study shows that tolls would raise approximately $1 billion in revenue by charging passenger cars between 3.5 and 11.8 cents per mile.
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CEMA
Shortly after the election, where Democrats saw significant gains in the State House of Representatives and the Senate, legislative leaders announced their priorities for 2019. With the Senate turning an 18-18 tie over the last two years into a 23-13 advantage for the Democrats, Senate President Martin Looney (New Haven) announced that increasing the minimum wage, implementing tolls on trucks, and paid family medical leave would all be priorities in 2019.
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CEMA
This week marks the beginning of the "Click It or Ticket" seat belt enforcement crackdown. Dozens of police departments across the state along with the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) are conducting roving patrols and checkpoints from now through next Monday, Nov. 26.
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CEMA
We received this question recently from a member: "Where do I have to display my HOD # and my occupational S-1 License numbers?"
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CEMA
It is required for every company engaging transportation of placardable hazardous materials to have a federal DOT number, and to update it every other year using the MCS-150 form. But one member received recently an email offering to file the MCS-150 on their behalf for a fee.
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CEMA
The FDA announced that it would be placing restrictions on flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb unveiled a set of changes aimed at forcing the e-cigarette industry to better keep its products out of the hands of teens, including a proposal that would mandate (via compliance guidelines) that the majority of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) only be sold in age-restricted facilities.
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Boston.com
The backdrop may be colorful fall foliage rather than warm summer days, but Massachusetts really is nearing the opening of the state's first recreational marijuana dispensaries. Never mind that it will occur close to the two-year anniversary of the state's vote to legalize weed for adults.
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The Connecticut Mirror
Buffeted by political ill winds, New England's Republicans in Congress moved toward the brink of extinction in the recent midterm election, while Democrats made huge gains at all levels of state government offices. Connecticut has not had a Republican representative in Congress since 2009. Now it appears that all but one of the six New England states — Maine — will have all-blue congressional delegations.
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CT News Junkie
Gov.-elect Ned Lamont told Connecticut Public Radio listeners earlier this month that "legalizing marijuana is an idea whose time has come," and with Massachusetts ready to start sales this week, advocates hope Connecticut is next. Advocates would like to see Connecticut legalize recreational marijuana during the 2019 legislative session.
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WFXT-TV
On top of the snow and rain last week, people living in temporary housing in the Merrimack Valley are dealing with a new problem. The pipes in their trailers are freezing. Some residents have been living in the trailers on the South Common in Lawrence since the end of September. And this weather is the scenario so many were afraid of in the aftermath of the gas explosions.
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OilPrice.com
A Tampa, Florida based options trading firm, OptionSellers, went dark last weekend after it informed its clients of a "catastrophic loss event," resulting from a short squeeze on the natural gas market, ZeroHedge reports, citing parts of the letter. The short squeeze took place at a rate "truly beyond anything I [president James Cordier] have seen in my career. It overran our risk control systems and left us at the mercy of the market."
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