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MEMA and Small Business Legislative Council
While in D.C., MEMA members and Jamie Py expressed their great concern over the new overtime rules. Our delegation heard the major concerns but appears unable to block the new rules.
These rules will be a job killer for medium wage salaried employees, like those in the convenience store and heating fuels mid management area.
You can find out more here.
The Petroleum Marketers Association of America
Petroleum marketers who transport product in commercial motor vehicles should be prepared for a major
enforcement blitz in June when a nationwide roadside commercial motor vehicle inspection sweep is
scheduled to take place. The annual inspection blitz is important to petroleum marketers because it could
lead to an immediate out of service order and adversely impact motor carrier safety ratings. The
Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, a group of federal, state and local transportation
enforcement agencies, is preparing to put 10,000 inspectors at 1,500 sites nationwide to conduct
approximately 75,000 roadside inspections on June 7-9, 2016. The CVSA "RoadCheck" inspection sweep
is an annual event designed to highlight common violations of state and federal motor carrier and
HAZMAT transportation regulations.
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The Petroleum Marketers Association of America
Bill To Delay Ozone Standard Will Hit the House Floor Next Week
H.R. 4775, known as the "Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016," will come to the
House floor for a vote next week. The legislation would extend state deadlines to submit
implementation plans for the new ozone standard of 70 parts per billion until 2026 and also
extend the statutory review cycle for all of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards from five
years to ten years. Additionally, it would order EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee to
provide advice to EPA on new standards' "adverse public health, welfare, social, economic or
energy effects," among other changes.
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New England Fuel Institute
This is the industry's conference that you can’t afford to miss.
Committed to bringing you new strategies, education, ideas to propel your financial growth and innovative solutions to fuel your business. This year's conference will be unlike any other. Interactive seminars, engaging panel discussion and compelling interviews are all meant to deliver meaning and value to you and your business from start to finish.
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| | MEMA 62ND ANNUAL CONVENTION |
MEMA
To check out the flyer for more information, click here.
MEMA
Please view additional rooming and housing options for your Convention accommodation needs here!
MEMA
MEMA's annual convention brings together business owners, top executives and management personnel from companies of all sectors of the energy industry. This year's event will focus on themes of proactive leadership at all levels — within your company, within our association and within the industry at large.
Register today!
Federated Insurance
Business owners today understand the tremendous benefits of using the Internet, computers and technology in their everyday operations. Unfortunately, all that technology can open the door to some very serious cyber threats. Every business that is "plugged in" is a target for criminals to steal, spy and cause major disruption.
Cyber threats can be a major blow to a company's financial and operational well-being. They can also expose businesses to non-criminal risks, such as privacy requirements, damage to technology assets and liability for damages caused by inadvertent injury to others. These cyber risks can be just as severe as the typical property, liability, business auto and workers compensation exposures.
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MEMA
Click here to check out what Boothbay Harbor has to offer.
Convention Golf tournament to be held at multi-million dollar renovated Boothbay Harbor Country Club.
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| | MEMA TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER |
MEMA
Last minute openings in June (night) and July (day) These hands-on classes are small, so seats are filing fast. Register today!
MEMA
We are currently seeking experienced instructors for contract
work on a part time basis, with the possibility for growth into full time.
Experience with Oilheat, Propane CTEP, Natural Gas,
EPA Air Conditioning and Refrigeration all valuable.
Preference given to candidates with some experience in prior HVAC-R
or related trade-based instruction.
Click here to view the flyer for more information.
If you wish to apply, please submit your resume and cover letter here!
MEMA
As summer approaches, MTEC instructors are asking the membership if there is interest in MTEC offering a Class B Driver training course.
Students would be required to obtain a Class B CDL permit as well as a hazmat endorsement prior to attending the Class B Driver training course. Driving qualification training would be administered by Pro Drive®, with the MTEC Delivery Driver class following.
In order to determine whether or not we should begin planning to incorporate this course into the MTEC curriculum, please let senior instructor Bryan Champagne know your thoughts as soon as possible. You can email Bryan at bchampagne@maineenergymarketers.com.
MEMA
MEMA is teaming up with ServicEdge's TechAdvantage to provide sales training sessions for technicians. Help your technicians develop and hone their selling skills, as well as improve day-to-day interactions with your clients.
Join us at one of our sessions:
- Tuesday, June 21 or Wednesday, June 22
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MEMA
Online registration for this event is coming soon! Click here to check out the flyer for more information.
MEMA
Click here to check out these upcoming events!
NACS
Reuters reports that the White House Office of Management and Budget has deleted language in the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco regulation that would have removed flavored e-cigarettes from the market until they had been authorized by the Food & Drug Administration.
On May 5, the FDA issued its deeming tobacco rules to bring electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and other products under its regulatory authority.
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Department of Professional & Financial Regulation
Commissioner Anne L. Head at Maine’s Department of Professional and Financial Regulation highlighted the June 30th deadline for fuel dealers to register with the state if they intend to offer pre-paid home heating contracts for the next fuel season.
She also announced that a new online process will assist both fuel dealers and the public. The registration form and general information can be obtained from the Department's website, or directly at www.maine.gov/pfr/hho.html.
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LPGas
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a safety advisory on the use of certain Fisher Controls pressure relief devices on cargo tank motor vehicles.
According to FMCSA, Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies Inc. issued a voluntary recall on Fisher Controls pressure relief device models H732 and H832 in 2013. The company expanded the recall to include models H282, H882, H5112 and H8112 in 2014. After a recent crash involving an MC330 cargo tank motor vehicle, FMCSA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators discovered that one of the pressure relief devices installed on the crashed cargo tank motor vehicle was a Fisher Controls model H282.
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The Associated Press via PennEnergy
OPEC oil ministers ended a meeting recently without reaching any kind of consensus on regulating the price and supply of crude, a result that triggered an immediate drop in energy markets.
As the ministers gathered in Vienna, comments by some suggested that the oil cartel would send a message of unity on regulating the market after not being able to do so for years.
But a statement read at the end of their meeting made no concrete pledges, emphasizing only the need for members to work for a stable market.
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LPGas
The Department of Transportation's Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published a final rule to its Hazardous Materials Regulations, addressing two critical propane industry issues.
According to the National Propane Gas Association, the results of the final rule could save the industry more than $500 million.
PHMSA amended the regulations in order to update and clarify requirements on the hydrostatic pressure test requalification period for certain types of bobtails and proposed requirements for quantitative testing of LP gas odorant in railcars, cargo tanks and cylinders.
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Bangor Daily News
With Maine voters growing more attentive to the November elections, the people running for the State House have their eyes cast a bit further into the future to when the new Legislature chooses its leaders for the next two years.
Although the most major development come November will be which party controls the House and Senate after the election, the people who will serve as House speaker and Senate president — and their assistants — will take on heightened significance.
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Portland Press Herald
As Maine's forest products industry continues to falter, global demand is skyrocketing for new products created from breaking down wood and other plant matter into their constituent sugars and fibers.
Maine should be fighting hard to secure its place in the plant-based, or "biobased," products industry, but fear, complacency and a lack of political will are holding back any meaningful progress, advocates say. Time is of the essence, because Maine's existing forest-products infrastructure helps bolster the business case for bringing new biobased products companies and investment to the state. That infrastructure, including pulp and paper mills, is shrinking fast.
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Business Sun Journal
Andy Nichols paid $1.2 million for electricity last year at Elmet Technologies.
No question he'd love to trim that bill.
The former Philips Elmet Corp. employs 200 people making an array of high-tech metal products.
"If we could cut our (electric) bill by 30 percent, that is a significant, significant gain on our business," said Nichols, president and chief operating officer. "I'm competing against guys in inland China, all over Europe. We're doing it well. Every penny of this counts."
Energy costs and the hard work finding employees were themes at the Manufacturers Association of Maine's annual manufacturing summit at the Bates Mill.
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