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CEMA
The fall selling season is here, and with the heating season just a few weeks away, questions about energy, efficiency and home heating are on the minds of realtors, buyers and sellers more than at any other time of the year.
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CEMA
CEMA has been meeting with the attorney general's office regarding deceptive advertising and marketing by the gas utilities, claiming big savings to consumers if they convert from oil to gas. The attorney general has requested copies of any marketing materials from the utilities that can help prove our case. You can help — please send us any utility marketing materials that you've come across promising big savings for conversion. These can be letters to homeowners, fliers, posters, lawn signs, internet advertising, bill stuffers, door hangers, etc. Time is of the essence — please forward what you have to Chris Herb at chris@ctema.com or fax to 860-632-1122. Thank you!
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CEMA
According to a Wall Street Journal article, "sales of electronic cigarettes have fallen sharply in recent months, bringing an end to five years of triple-digit growth and making the much-touted category look more like a potential fad than real threat to Big Tobacco."
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PMAA via CEMA
I. BACKGROUND
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published the final UST system testing and inspection rule June 15. The PMAA UST Task Force worked closely with the Small Business Administration, the White House Office of Management and Budget, key members of Congress, as well as EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks to reduce compliance costs on tank owners to the greatest extent possible. The PMAA UST Task force was largely successful in this effort reducing annual costs of the final rule from $6,966 to $2,377 per site.
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PMAA via CEMA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration workplace Hazard Communication Standard has been revised to align with the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals. The purpose of the HCS is to provide employees information about the identities and hazards of chemicals (largely petroleum products) present in the workplace.
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CEMA
Save the date! CEMA's annual holiday party will be Wednesday, Dec. 9, at the New Britain Museum of American Art from 6-9 p.m. This will be the first time we've held our event at a museum since the Wadsworth Atheneum in 2004.
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CEMA
GoodWorks Insurance — a Connecticut insurance agency with a heart — has pledged a $10,000 initial donation to Operation Fuel, a nonprofit that serves Connecticut residents who need emergency fuel assistance. Unlike the state/federal energy assistance program, Operation Fuel provides participating fuel retailers their full margin when making deliveries to those in need.
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CEMA
Not only is distracted driving still a serious problem, it is an epidemic. With each new mobile device introduced, the potential for behind-the-wheel distractions increase and so does a business's exposure to risk.
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Federated Insurance via CEMA
In the world of workers compensation, managed care is a vastly misunderstood buzzword. In its simplest form, managed care describes a variety of techniques that, when properly applied, will help you efficiently use your workers compensation dollars.
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The Boston Globe
Attorney General Maura Healey, who by law represents consumers in utility cases, said that the state can meet its energy needs and lower costs without building new natural gas pipelines, citing a study that calls instead for improving energy efficiency and management.
The study was commissioned by Healey's office, but financed by two national foundations that have contributed to environmental causes.
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The News-Times
The state's push to bring more natural gas into Connecticut to heat homes and produce electricity is drawing fire from environmentalists, who say an expansion in pipeline construction means declining focus on renewable energy.
The Algonquin pipeline, which runs through the state from Danbury to Oxford, to Putnam, is the first of five planned interstate pipeline projects approved in March by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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WVIT-TV
Keno is coming to Connecticut, but whether your hometown restaurant or bar will offer it is still left to be determined.
Dozens of establishments from Fairfield County to the northeast corner of the state tell the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters they're going to pass on selling the lottery game to their customers.
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Foley Carrier Services
Most in the transportation industry will agree that the hours-of-service regulations are about as easy to define as Mayan hieroglyphics. That being said, the whole purpose of these regulations is to prevent accidents and keep our nation's roadways safe.
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The Connecticut Mirror
Nonpartisan fiscal analysts issued projections that Connecticut, already coping with a significant budget shortfall in the current year, is facing a far worse problem just over the horizon: nearly a $2.3 billion gap in state finances over the next two fiscal years. The Legislature's nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis is projecting a $552 million deficit in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2016.
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The Telegraph
The world is running out of storage facilities for surging supplies of oil and may soon exhaust tanker space offshore, raising the chances of a violent plunge in crude prices over coming weeks, experts have warned. Goldman Sachs told clients that the increasing glut of oil on the global market has combined with mild weather from a freak El Niño this winter.
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Hartford Business Journal
A national survey of employer-sponsored health plans has found the cost of health benefits is substantially higher in Connecticut compared to the national average. It also determined, among other findings, that health-benefit costs rose 4.3 percent in 2015.
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Public News Service
Environmental groups will rally in Hartford, asking Gov. Dannel Malloy to invest in clean energy, not gas pipelines. With the boom in natural-gas production, major new pipelines are being built in Connecticut to carry gas to consumers and for export.
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