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MEMA Secures Increase in Fuel Assistance Margin
After several months of work with Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) officials in Massachusetts, MEMA was able to secure a 25-cent per gallon increase in Margin-Over-Rack payments to retailers delivering to qualified fuel assistance customers.
Commission on Clean Heat Issues Final Report
Following nearly 12 months of work, the Commission on Clean Heat has issued its final report. The Commission was appointed by former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. MEMA member Charlie Uglietto, President of Cubby Oil & Energy, served on the Commission.
Boston Globe Publishes MEMA Letter-to-Editor
In response to efforts by state lawmakers to ban fossil fuel installations in cities and towns across the Commonwealth, MEMA President Michael Ferrante and Steve Dodge with Clean Fuels Alliance of America submitted a letter to the Boston Globe.
Addressing Climate Change with Clean, Renewable Biofuel
Homes and business using heating oil blended with renewable biofuel contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions without incurring the high cost of an electric heat pump installation.
MEMA Fights to Preserve MA Rebates
MEMA intervened before the MA Department of Public Utilities to try and keep Mass Save equipment rebates in place for heating oil customers.
Governor Baker Appoints Commission on Clean Heat
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has appointed MEMA's Charlie Uglietto, President of Cubby Oil & Energy, to the state’s Commission on Clean Heat.
Boston Globe Publishes MEMA Editorial
MEMA executive director Michael Ferrante says proposed Mass Save cuts are "simply wrong and unfair."
Exploring Biodiesel Seminar Comes to Boston
The National Biodiesel Board’s Exploring Biodiesel Regional Seminars (XBX) is teaming with Project Carbon Freedom and the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association to kick off the 2021-22 heating season in the Northeast.
Gov. Baker Mandates Biodiesel Use in State Buildings and Fleets
All state agencies using heating oil in their buildings must now use at least a 10% (B10) blend of biofuels.
Climate Change & the Heating Oil Industry
The Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association has prepared a briefing on the key climate change initiatives from 2007 to present.
NEFI Launches Resource Center
The National Energy & Fuels Institute has unveiled a new website to provide industry stakeholders with tools and information to achieve greater success in the future.
A Green Plan That Benefits Everyone
In an op-ed published by The Sun Chronicle, Matt Allen, vice-president of W.H. Riley & Son, Inc., says that the home heating industry stands ready and willing to help reduce emissions in the Northeast – if only lawmakers will recognize renewable liquid heating fuel as part of the solution.
“Individuals and communities across the country are going be affected by net-zero transitions in different ways. All Americans will be crucial partners in this transition, and we must be sensitive to the needs and values of communities when planning and implementing the very significant infrastructure and other developments needed to get to net-zero,”
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