Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the east coast and will likely make landfall on Friday morning as a Category 4. Assuming this is the case, FRF will deploy.

FRF is contacting its board and volunteers for support now.

FRF needs any hands possible in responding to this disaster. Anyone able or willing to donate one truck and driver for the up to two weeks of response efforts, is asked to contact Sarah Kruger at skruger@fuelrelieffund.org.

FRF needs as much support as possible, and CFCA will be here to help!

Jimm Cross of Cross Petroleum located in Redding, CA has been nominated to serve as the 2nd Vice Chairperson on the PMAA Executive Committee.

Most recently, Mr. Cross was the Chairperson representing the Western Region at PMAA. Over the next couple of years, Jimm will continue his work and serve as President of PMAA in 2021.

CFCA is extremely proud to have a dedicated member like Mr. Cross, and will continue to support our national partners at PMAA at every opportunity.

Confirmation to the position could occur at the next PMAA meeting scheduled for October.

Fuel Relief Fund is the world's only charitable organization focused exclusively on addressing fuel supply challenges in major disasters. By providing free fuel to affected communities and the aid agencies that support them, we empower disaster survivors to meet basic food, shelter, and medical needs and enable
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CIOMA has partnered with the Alternative Fuels Council (part of the National Association of Truck Stop Owners) to provide the biodiesel Fuel Quality Plan. This document outlines best practices for biodiesel, including storage and testing. CIOMA supports the use of biodiesel as a low carbon fuel option and encourages members and their customers to read this document in order to learn how guarantee they are selling and using the highest quality products.

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Single-walled underground storage tanks (USTs), including single-walled piping, must be permanently closed in accordance with Health and Safety Code, chapter 6.7, section 25292.05 by December 31, 2025. This webcast is to provide information regarding the single-walled UST requirements created with the passage of Senate Bill No. 445 (Stats. 2014, Ch. 547), as well as State Water Resource Control Board funding opportunities to meet those requirements.

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SC Fuels said that it has purchased Carlsbad, Calif. based SoCo Group, adding to its already-large distribution network in the western United States.

The SoCo Group is an independent fuel distributer operating in the Southwest U.S. SoCo delivers wholesale branded fuel, commercial bulk fuels along with lubricants and alternative fuels to unbranded retailers and
commercial customers throughout the Southwest.

After its summer enforcement blitz, the U.S. FDA discovered that more than 1,100 stores and websites were illegally selling e-cig products to minors.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced a series of actions related to the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to underage users.

In the largest coordinated enforcement effort in FDA history, the agency issued more than 1,300 warning letters and fines to retailers who illegally sold e-cigarette products to minors during a nationwide, undercover blitz of brick-and-mortar and online stores this summer.

Pilot Flying J announced that it has partnered with the American Trucking Associations on a public awareness campaign designed to address the driver shortage by promoting trucking as a career.

ATA estimates there could be a shortage of as many as 174,000 truck drivers by 2026, according to the announcement. Pilot noted that this affects "everything from stocked retail shelves, fuel at the pump and expedited delivery of goods to consumers across the country."

Earlier this summer, a Harvard researcher said he can potentially pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for as little as $100 per metric ton. The news reinvigorated many people who had resigned themselves to an ever-warming planet. The announcement also received push back from some scientists and environmentalists who fear creation of a "moral hazard" if experimentation undermines the political will to halt emissions and the subsequent technology turns out to not work well enough to halt global warming.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed a California Chamber of Commerce-supported bill that improves environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

CalChamber supported AB 2782 (Friedman; D-Glendale) because it represents a prudent and balanced addition to the CEQA process to ensure that lead agencies are considering the multiple aspects of a project.

AB 2782 authorizes lead agencies to more comprehensively analyze the pros and cons of a project by considering specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other benefits of, and negative impacts of denying, the proposed project.