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.
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.
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.
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.
The new law, which makes New York the largest state to enact a biodiesel blending requirement for heating oil, will reduce the state’s annual carbon emissions by approximately 1 million metric tons.
MEMA intervened before the MA Department of Public Utilities to try and keep Mass Save equipment rebates in place for heating oil customers.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has appointed MEMA's Charlie Uglietto, President of Cubby Oil & Energy, to the state’s Commission on Clean Heat.
MEMA executive director Michael Ferrante says proposed Mass Save cuts are "simply wrong and unfair."
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.
All state agencies using heating oil in their buildings must now use at least a 10% (B10) blend of biofuels.
