CEMA News Archive
CEMA Celebrates Earth Day by Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions; in Just Two Years, Millions of Gallons of Home Heating Oil in Connecticut Have Been Replaced with Renewable Biodiesel
“By upping the production of biodiesel, we are becoming independent of foreign oil while keeping food waste out of landfills. Biodiesel is great for the economy. It’s great for the environment, and it’s made in the United States of America,” said Chris Herb,...
Adding Thousands of Electric Heat Pumps to the Grid Could Cause Brownouts, Blackouts
CEMA applauds Governor Ned Lamont regarding comments made yesterday during political show, CT Politics TV.
During the show, Lamont told host, Dan Newmyer, that he thinks following federal emissions standards, and not California, is a better fit for Connecticut. Lamont also softened his stance regarding an EV mandate. "It was a question about freedom: 'You can't take away...
HOUSE BILL 5485 WOULD CREATE A ONE-SIDED COMMISSION TO SKATE AN EV MANDATE PAST THE FINISH LINE AFTER THE ELECTIONS
If the council really wants to look at the big picture of an EV mandate, then other stakeholders and experts need to be added to this commission to tell the whole story including people from our industry, small businesses, fire suppression experts, transportation...
Nov 28th Vote: Ban Sale Of New Gasoline Vehicles
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: NOVEMBER 28, THE CONNECTICUT GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S REGULATION REVIEW COMMITTEE WILL VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT TO ULTIMATELY BAN THE PURCHASE OF NEW GASOLINE VEHICLES. If approved, this would be a done deal and mandate the sale of electric vehicles only...
Biodiesel Has Same Impact On Environment As Planting Trees
Using renewable biodiesel lowers greenhouse gas emissions and has a similar impact on the environment as planting trees. Used cooking oil, and another discarded food waste like soybean oil, is turned into renewable biodiesel in Connecticut, and is used to heat homes....
How Your Greasy Food is Helping to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions
For more informationContact Shelly Sindland860-992-9045shellysindland@ctema.com FROM FRENCH FRIES TO FUEL: A NEW CONNECTICUT LAW IS DRAMATICALLY CUTTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WHILE CHANGING THE WAY CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS HEAT THEIR HOMES! PRESS ADVISORY:Press...
11TH HOUR AMENDMENTS WOULD GRANT DEEP COMMISSIONER COMPLETE CONTROL OF CONNECTICUT’S ENERGY ECONOMY DESPITE PREVIOUS, SIMILAR ATTEMPTS ALREADY DEFEATED THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION
For Immediate ReleaseContact Shelly Sindlandshellysindland@ctema.com860-992-9045 For immediate release: 11TH HOUR AMENDMENTS WOULD GRANT DEEP COMMISSIONER COMPLETE CONTROL OF CONNECTICUT’S ENERGY ECONOMY DESPITE PREVIOUS, SIMILAR ATTEMPTS ALREADY DEFEATED THIS...
CEMA Fighting For Members and Consumers; Bill Would Raise Energy Costs Across The Board
CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO PAY MORE IN TAXES ON FUEL AND OTHER ENERGY SOURCES IF A STATE BILL BECOMES LAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQR_6vAIvOM Chris Herb, president and CEO of Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, speaks with members of the...
2023 CEMA Golf Outing
May 4th, 2020
GREAT RIVER GOLF CLUB, MILFORD, CONNECTICUT
73rd CEMA Annual Meeting and Southern New England Energy Conference
Oct 13th, 2020
Mohegan Sun Casino
The TCI Gas Tax Is Back But Disguised As Something Else!
Chris Herb, CEMA President and CEO at a press conference March 5, 2021 regarding TCI TCI IS BACK BUT DISGUISED AS SOMETHING ELSE! IF PASSED, ENERGY PRICES WILL INCREASE EVEN MORE! “This feels like a sneak attack on Connecticut by not calling it what it actually is. RB...
Consumers Need To Pay Attention To A New State Energy Plan That Will Only Increase Prices!
Chris Herb's Statement Regarding DEEP's Hearing Today For Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES 2022) For Immediate Release: Contact Shelly Sindland for more information 860-992-9045 "While people were busy at work today trying to make a living, the state held a...
DEEP Announces Hearings For Electrification Plan And New Fuel Taxes
Connecticut Energy Marketers Association (CEMA) sounded the alarm today concerning a new proposed state energy plan which would virtually increase energy costs across the board from the way you heat your home during cold winter months, to the way you cool your home...
Used Cooking Oil From Connecticut Restaurants, Along With Other Food Waste, Is Being Turned Into Fuel To Heat Your Home!
For Immediate ReleaseContact Shelly SindlandCEMAshellysindland@ctema.com860-992-9045 STARTING JULY 1ST, A NEW STATE LAW WILL CHANGE THE WAY HALF OF CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS HEAT THEIR HOMES!Used Cooking Oil From Restaurants, Along With Other Food Waste, Will Be Mixed...
Turning used cooking oil into fuel; press conference advisory for Tuesday 6-28
Used Cooking Oil From Connecticut Restaurants, Along With Other Food Waste, Is Being Turned Into Fuel To Heat Your Home! • On July first, a new Connecticut state law will require all home heating oil to be blended with this new, sustainable, green liquid fuel! • It’s...
Consumers Will Have To Wait Days, If Not Weeks, To See Savings From Gas Tax Holiday
Hartford: Connecticut Energy Marketers Association (CEMA), which represents 70 percent of the gas stations in Connecticut, wants consumers to be patient when it comes to seeing relief at the pumps with recently passed legislation offering a “gas tax holiday.”...
CEMA Goes On Air to Fight Electrification
CEMA has started our anti-electrification/conversion campaign by running digital and terrestrial radio ads from December 27th through January 17th. The ad focuses on CEMA's recent public relations efforts to raise concerns about the reliability of the electric grid...
WITH COLD WEATHER IN THE FORECAST, CEMA (Connecticut Energy Marketers Association) URGES GOVERNOR NED LAMONT TO HALT STATE ENERGY POLICIES, WHICH COULD CONTRIBUTE TO A CATASTROPHIC ELECTRICITY GRID FAILURE WITH FRIGID TEMPERATURES
For Immediate Release: For more information Contact Shelly Sindland 860-992-9045 shellysindland@ctema.com “The time to act is now before it’s too late,” said Chris Herb, President of CEMA. “We’ve been sounding the alarm on this for nearly ten years....
Press Release- New Connecticut Poll Shows Vast Majority of Residents Unhappy with Gas Prices and Fees; State Entry into TCI Program Opposed by 2 to 1 Margin
TCI Press Conference with CT, MA & RI on what TCI really means for ratepayers.
TCI Zoom Press Conference
TCI Press Conference with CT, MA & RI on what TCI really means for ratepayers.
TCI Regional Supply Shortage
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CT TCI Press Statement- May 19, 2021
After a thorough review of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and TCI’s emission reduction targets, there is no way to avoid significant fuel shortages in our states.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 19, 2021 For more information contact Shelly Sindland shellysindland@ctema.com TCI WILL CAUSE GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL SHORTAGES IN Conn., Mass., AND R.I. Representatives From The Fuel Industry In Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, Warn TCI Will Cause...
Business Assistance and Relief
Connecticut has a one-stop resource to help your business rebuild and grow during the State’s COVID response. Including information on - Medical leave reimbursementSmall business loansDisaster assistanceCARES ActPPPExtended tax deadlinesBusiness interruption insurance...
Governor Proposes New Truck Tax
HIGHLIGHTS - Tax to apply on all trucks class 8-13 (see below), 26,000 GVW and up - Tax is a mileage tax, starting at 2.5 cents/mile traveled in CT for 26,000 GVW trucks, increasing to over 17.5 cents/mi. for trucks over 81,000 GVW - Called a Highway Use Tax (HUT),...
Federal Regional Hours of Service Waiver Feb 17 – Mar 4
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), a division of the Department of Transportation, issued a regional Hours of Service waiver, including Connecticut and surrounding states, effective upon issuance, yesterday, February 17, and valid through 11:59...
The Green New Deal Has Arrived in Connecticut
The “Green New Deal” has arrived in Connecticut! As we suspected, the bill proposes to end our industry and transition our workforce to yet to be developed green jobs. This is the most overt and specific attack on our industry that I have seen in the two decades I...
2020 Federal Motor Fuel Excise Tax Rates
The federal Oil Spill Liability Tax (OSLT) that expired on December 31, 2018 has been reauthorized prospectively (not retroactively) beginning January 1, 2020. Refiners are the only parties in the petroleum distribution chain liable for the OSLT. The OSLT rate is...
New Laws Effective 1/1/2020
There's no more sales tax exemption on safety equipment. We reported on this when it passed but there's nothing marketers actually need to do since the tax will be applied automatically by suppliers on purchases of these products. Also gone is the $250 business entity...
Join CEMA
Our History In 1950, a small group of concerned fuel oil dealers and gasoline distributors came together to do some good for their customers and their industry. The result was the creation of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association. Since then, the ICPA has...
New Law Changes That Affect CEMA Members
While the new $43 billion state budget that was adopted last month claimed to not increase the sales or income tax, a number of "changes" were made that will have an effect on CEMA members. Below is a summary of the new expanded application of the sales tax and some...
Natural Gas Leak Bill Approved By Environment Committee
The Connecticut General Assembly's Environment Committee approved a bill that would prohibit natural gas utilities from charging their customers for leaked gas into the environment. CEMA would like to thank Steve Rosentel of Leahy's Fuel (Danbury), John Daniels of...
Connecticut Legislature Publishes Language For Proposed Carbon Tax Bill
Raised Bill 1064, An Act Establishing a Carbon Price for Fossil Fuels Sold in Connecticut, is proposing a carbon tax scheme identical to carbon tax billed raised the previous two years in Connecticut and may be viewed here. In New Hampshire, H.B. 735 is a similar bill...
Fight The Carbon Tax
Language for a new carbon tax bill in Connecticut is out, and there will be a hearing on the bill, No. 1064, starting at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 18 in Room 2B at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. The bill's language is identical to that of bills proposed...
CEMA Members Storm The Capitol
Last week, 50 CEMA members participated in the 4th annual March on Hartford. Lead by CEMA Board of Directors Chairman Peter Russell of Santa Fuel (Bridgeport), participants started the day with a briefing on all of the issues that they were going to tackle with their...
CEMA Members Testify On Legislation To Promote Bioheat® fuel
Sharon Peterson of Apple Oil (West Haven), John Bowman of FF Hitchcock (Cheshire), Steve Sack of Sack Energy (West Hartford), Eli Patterson of Kolmar (Bridgeport), and Chris Herb of CEMA all testified before the Energy Committee in support of a bill that would help...
2019 CEMA Golf Outing
2019 CEMA GOLF OUTING: MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019
HARTFORD GOLF CLUB, WEST HARTFORD, CT
French President Macron Backs Down On Carbon Tax On Fuel
French President Macron Backs Down On Carbon Tax On Fuel