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Foster's Daily Democrat
Local businessman Jonathan Mapes has been appointed to the Maine Board of Environmental Protection.
The Sanford Regional Economic Growth Council announced Mapes' appointment in its recent newsletter.
Mapes joins the BEP's seven-member citizen board after being appointed by the governor earlier this fall, and approved by the Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources in October.
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Federated Insurance
In the world of workers compensation, managed care is a vastly misunderstood buzz word. In its simplest form, managed care describes a variety of techniques that, when properly applied, will help you efficiently use your workers compensation dollars.
A highly effective managed care strategy: the drug-free workplace. This concept has gained significant traction in recent years. Drug-free workplaces typically use pre-employment, random, or post-incident drug testing. A properly utilized program can be successful for both monitoring and preventing drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace. A drug-free workplace program can offer benefits over and above its initial intent, such as the potential for direct and indirect savings.
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Maine Public Broadcasting
Bangor's City Council says the city's minimum wage will go up whether voters pass a statewide referendum or not.
The council approved an amendment on Monday, Dec. 14, that will serve as a fallback if the referendum fails next year. by 2020 fails.
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NACS
The Cleveland City Council approved a measure that increases the tobacco buying age within city limits to 21, Cleveland.com reports. The ordinance includes electronic cigarettes as part of the restriction. The council also OK'd a resolution to only hire non-smokers by 2017, following the lead of Cleveland Clinic. Not voted on yet was a proposal to only allow sales of flavored tobacco products at retail tobacco stores.
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The Petroleum Marketers Association of America
Recently, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation unanimously passed a bipartisan bill known as the "SAFE PIPES Act", marking a significant victory for
PMAA and its members. The bill seeks to improve the safety of the nation's oil and natural gas pipelines and overhaul procedures at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Included in the bill is language that was initially requested by PMAA. Section 4 of the bill is language that rescinds a recent interpretative guidance on placarding on cargo tank trucks. The language would force PHMSA to revert back to placarding to the lowest flash point for both split loads and alternating straight loads of diesel fuel and gasoline.
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NACS
Congress completed a task recently that it had not done in the previous decade: passed a long-term highway authorization bill. On Thursday, Dec. 3, both the House and Senate passed H.R. 22, Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. The FAST Act extends highway authorization for five years with total funding at $305 billion across the next five years. The Senate passed the measure by a vote of 83-16; the House passed the same bill earlier in the day by a vote of 359-65.
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CentralMaine
Gov. Paul LePage took an opportunity to deride solar energy while he recently promoted public investment in infrastructure to expand Maine's natural gas capacity and to connect our electrical distribution system to hydropower generated in Quebec.
MPBN reported that the governor advised that the state "[get] away from solar because it doesn't shine much during a snowstorm, it doesn’t shine when it's raining and 12 hours a day it's dark."
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NACS
Recently, the U.S. government announced its plan to combat the illicit tobacco trade. In support of the U.S. National Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, the U.S. Department of State launched "The Global Illicit Trade in Tobacco: A Threat to National Security," a publication outlining the emerging negative impact of the illicit trade in tobacco and the government's efforts to combat it.
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American Trucking Associations
On Dec. 10, FMCSA announced its final rule requiring the adoption and use of electronic logging devices by all drivers currently required to complete paper records of duty status. In the July 2012 highway reauthorization law known as MAP-21, Congress required that FMCSA
mandate the use of ELDs. The following is a summary of the final rule's main points.
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Portland Press Herald
After hours of testimony and deliberation, the City Council on recently killed a proposal for a controversial six-month moratorium on the development of propane storage and distribution facilities.
The council considered the moratorium amid mounting controversy over a proposal by NGL Terminal Supply Co. to build a liquefied petroleum gas depot at Rigby Yard.
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Portland Press Herald
The pace of solar energy development in Maine will hinge in part on whether a group of state officials, business interests and environmental advocates can agree on rules that would govern how utilities pay customers who generate electricity from the sun.
Participants met recently at the Maine Public Utilities Commission in a bid to craft a comprehensive plan that would expand solar power in a way that treats all electric customers fairly. Their recommendations will go next month to the Legislature, where the outcome is uncertain.
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NACS
Navigating the new reporting requirements for the Affordable Care Act is complex and lengthy, but NACS partnered with the legal experts at Steptoe & Johnson on a free webinar about the topic. You can view the 90-minute webinar on the following page in its entirety.
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Maine Public Broadcasting
The Maine Public Utilities Commission is considering a proposed settlement of a rate case in which Maine Natural Gas had been seeking a substantial increase over three years.
The company has reached an agreement with the public advocate on a lower increase, but interveners, led by the town of Brunswick and Bowdoin College, remain opposed.
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Bangor Daily News
Utilities regulators recently approved agreements to resolve likely safety violations by two southern Maine natural gas utilities.
Through a stipulation with the Maine Public Utilities Commission, natural gas utility Unitil agreed to pay a $7,500 penalty and make changes to its inspection process for critical valves on its natural gas distribution pipelines.
Maine Natural Gas agreed to pay a $5,000 penalty for not keeping records of gas leak surveys in seven southern Maine communities from 2012 to 2014.
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Bangor Daily News
Gov. Paul LePage has insisted for more than a year that contractors cut more timber from state-owned forests and that the state use the additional revenue to fund heating upgrades for low-income, rural households.
Fortunately, reason has repeatedly prevailed in the face of a proposal that has lacked a sound scientific foundation and basis in the law.
Lawmakers from both parties have turned back LePage's plans more than once. Now, a commission specially appointed to evaluate the governor's proposal and determine how the state should spend the revenue it collects from logging on 400,000 acres of public land has concluded LePage's plan doesn't pass legal muster.
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