CFCA would like to extend a warm welcome to its newest members! Thank you for joining the CFCA family and we look forward to working with you on behalf of our industry!
Land Use Strategies, LLC
Poet Ethanol Products
CFCA would like to congratulate the following individuals on being named recipients of our annual CFCA Member Awards.
These awards were established to annually recognize CFCA members whose efforts have gone above and beyond in service to our association. It is only through efforts like theirs that CFCA remains the preeminent representative of our industry and can see the continued success of our members’ businesses.
Associate Member of the Year: Dan Centoni
Distinguished Member: Bob Shuster
Member of the Year: Chris Bambury
Deb Mattos Advocate Award: Ed Ward
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At Pinnacle EMS, we help our clients reduce the bottom-line impact of petroleum cleanup. Over the last 5 years, we’ve facilitated the reimbursement of over $100 million from the CA UST Cleanup Fund. Our 23 years in business has allowed us to develop the experience and tools to streamline the claims process while providing accurate payment forecasting and recommendations to maximize recovery.
Whether you’re a petroleum marketer who wants to improve your recovery rate and cash flow or a consultant interested in increasing your reimbursement success for you or your clients, if you’re not working with the leader in environmental claim preparation and management, it may be costing you more than you realize.
For more information, please visit PEMSConsult.com/California or send us an email at Contact@pinnacleems.com.
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The State Water Resource Control Board has announced they will allow the storage of biodiesel blends of up to 20% in Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) expected to begin October 1, 2019, awaiting OAL approval. CFCA has tirelessly fought for this over the last 2 years, beginning with the conversations surround the federal UST regulation reconciliation. The efforts of CFCA’s government relations teams, member participation at our Day at the Capitol events, and countless meetings with regulatory agencies, the fuels and convenience industry have led to a huge success.
California’s UST regulations have previously prevented the growth of higher biodiesel blends but will now reap the environmental benefits of lower carbon fuels sold by CFCA members. B20 is an important tool for California to meet the State’s aggressive climate change goals and CFCA members have driven the success of low carbon liquid fuels and programs such as the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
Thank you to all CFCA members who have participated in our government relations efforts and VoterVoice campaigns on this important issue. We look forward to continued success with your support!
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At this year's California Unified Program Agencies (CUPA) conference, CUPA and PG&E announced the formation of the Industry Technical Advisory Group (iTAG). CFCA has joined the iTAG, as well as the UST Subcommittee. This group was formed to provide industry input in order to streamline and clarify problems with CUPA.
The Industry Technical Advisory Group (iTAG) is scheduling a meeting with Laura Fisher of SWRCB to discuss the following issues:
- UST - Lack of violation closure in CERS
- Inconsistent CUPA requirements for when a permit is needed for overfill prevention systems or other UST component repair/replacements
- Specificity requirements for CERS data (e.g. TLS-350 plus model requires "+")
Additionally, we are hoping to discuss the B20 rulemaking, especially the certification of components and fittings. If you have an issue you would like CFCA to address, please contact Sam Bayless (bayless@cfca.energy).
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Applications for the CIOMA Memorial Scholarship Fund are now closed. Thank you to everyone that submitted an application and to the member companies that make the Fund possible. Winners will be announced in the coming months!
The CFCA Memorial Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to help children and employees of CFCA members further their education and professional development.
You can always help support the fund by following the link below!
The California Energy Commission (CEC) is requesting emergency contacts who can provide assistance concerning supply and logistics information for each on site refinery and bulk storage facility in the event of an emergency.
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Since its inception, Trinity Consultants has been committed to providing superior professional training in environmental topics. Our annual schedule includes more than 200 courses, offered at locations around the country, on timely topics for environmental professionals such as environmental permitting, emissions quantification and reporting, air dispersion modeling, greenhouse gas emissions reporting and permitting, stack testing, and CEMS management.
In addition to our federally-based regulatory courses, we also offer a large slate of state-specific courses, bringing the added value of information on specific state and local programs and insights gained from our experience working with the local regulatory agencies.
Free CARB Regulatory Training in Your Area!
Do you own, operate, or dispatch heavy-duty diesel trucks in or to California? Then you need to know that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) enforces a set of air pollution regulations affecting all types of heavy-duty diesel vehicles operating in the State. If your vehicles are NOT already compliant, you need to know what to do to be compliant for 2019. And if your vehicles ARE compliant, you still may need to report to remain compliant. This course gives you the information you need about how to comply with CARB diesel regulations and how to report to continue operating legally in 2019 and beyond.
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Join us for a FREE one-day seminar where you will learn everything you need to know about how to protect yourself and your customers.
“Preventing Gas Card Skimming at the Pump” will provide fraud education and prevention
strategies to combat fleet card skimming at the pump.
Wednesday, September 18th at 8am
Elk's Tower
921 11th St #401, Sacramento, CA 95814
Join us alongside law enforcement, legislators, and the experts at WEX (a leading provider payment processing and information management) as they guide you through their proven methods of skimming prevention.
Agenda
Part I: Card skimming prevention.
7:30 AM – Registration and continental breakfast
8:15 AM – Welcoming comments and Presentations
Sgt. Jeff Headley – Houston PD Financial Crimes Unit
Skimming 101. What devices look like, how to find them, and how to prepare for prosecution
United States Secret Service
Local description and an overall strategic approach to combatting skimming in California
Jeri Crespi- SC Fuels Operations Manager
What can merchants do to protect their pumps and work better with law enforcement
Steve Webster – Retired South Portland, Maine Detective, and current WEX Corporate Investigator
Impact that skimming has on businesses and financial institutions
12:00 PM – Conclusion of the morning session.
Lunch onsite is provided.
Part II: Law enforcement strategies to prevent skimming and live defendant case study
1:00 PM – Presentations
NCFTA (National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance)
What can the NCFTA skimming database do for you?
Agent Peter Brown – Secret Service South Florida Organized Fraud Task Force
How to investigate and dismantle large skimming organizations.
What do bladder trucks look like?
Cooperating Federal Defendant Charged with Skimming - Case Study from the Front Line on Skimming
4:00 PM Card reader distribution and instructions
Discover Financial Services, reading credit cards.
Whether you are a retailer, marketer, or anything in between, this is information you cannot afford to miss.
For registration, contact Sam Bayless at bayless@cfca.energy.
Sponsorship Opportunities are still available, if you are intersted in sponsoring this event, please click below:
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2019 Annual Conference
November 4-6
Austin Fairmont - Austin, TX
Motiva - Marquis Sponsor
2020 ELC
February 2-4
Talisa Hotel - Vail, CO
2020 Spring Conference
April 27-29
Hotel Del Coronado - San Diego, CA
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There is an opportunity for all of us to act now and start down a path toward a sustainable and low-carbon future. Fuel solutions exist today that you can easily incorporate into your daily operations that would allow you to transition to cleaner energy seamlessly. The only obstacle in your way is understanding how you can get the fuel you need when and where you need it. That’s where we can help!
World Energy invites you to join the National Biodiesel Board for a free one-day seminar designed to educate diesel fuel distributors and ends-users on the benefits and opportunities of low-carbon fuel.
The seminar is open to anyone who wants to drive positive change by transitioning to a cleaner, sustainable fuel while improving air quality and your fleet’s bottom line.
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The state of California in the US has approved the storage of biodiesel blends of up to 20% (B20) in underground storage tanks, removing the final barrier to ensuring the state has access to sufficient volumes of the biofuel.
The campaign began over 10 years ago, with the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), several member companies and the California Advanced Biofuels Alliance providing necessary data to the State Water Board to prove that B20 is compatible for storage in underground tanks.
Donnell Rehagen, CEO of NBB, said that the amended regulation ‘fulfils a high priority industry objective to allow double-walled UST [underground storage tank] owners and operators that wish to store B20 to comply with regulations’.
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The bill encourages the formation of public-private partnerships and assumes that public entities would partner with private ones to apply for federal grants that would cover up to 80 percent of the cost of new vehicle charging and fueling projects.
A $1 billion grant program for electric vehicle charging infrastructure tucked into the Senate's transportation bill has energized greens, but vehicle fueling stations see it as a direct challenge to their business and have kicked off a campaign against the provision.
The competitive grant program included in the bill, S. 2302 (116), would help fund the deployment of charging and fueling infrastructure for electric, hydrogen, and natural gas vehicles along designated corridors. Charging infrastructure is widely believed to be the linchpin for the broader adoption of electric vehicles, to help assuage consumer worries about being left stranded without a chance to refuel. The grants are primarily targeted at state and local governments.
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Local officials are bracing for myriad effects from PG&E's expanded power shut-off plan, which could lead to prolonged blackouts for thousands of Sonoma County residents in order to limit devastating wildfires.
After its equipment sparked numerous Northern California wildfires in 2017, PG&E broadened a fire-prevention effort now in effect to consider shutting down not only small power lines connected to homes, but larger transmission lines that carry electricity across Northern California to the utility's nearly 5 million customers.
Executing temporary outages will be based on whether the weather is ripe for wildfire - hot, dry and windy conditions - as well as Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s real-time meteorological observations.
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California motorists pay the nation's highest gas tax, 61.2 cents per gallon, followed by Pennsylvania's 58.7 cents, the Tax Foundation reports.
The low end: Alaska, 14.66 cents, Missouri, 17.42 cents, Mississippi, 18.4 cents.
Who could forget: Lawmakers approved Senate Bill 1, which raised gas taxes by 12 cents per gallon initially and another 5.6 cents as of July 1.
CalTans spent $2.3 billion of SB 1 money as of June, and anticipates spending $5.5 billion during the 2019-20 fiscal year.
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Oil derricks and refineries would disappear from the region.
Gas stations would become irrelevant.
Streetscapes would be dominated by electric vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians.
That's the vision laid out in a sustainability plan that will be considered Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
If carried out, the list of 159 action items included in the plan could dramatically transform LA's landscape in the coming decades. County officials call the scheme to phase out fossil fuels the "nation's most ambitious" regional proposal.
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CNBC's annual state-by-state "business climate" study is out. No surprise, we're dead last - No. 50 - among the states for "cost of doing business." Here's an area where you don't want to say, "As California goes, so goes the nation."
Almost all of California's business-climate problems are self-inflicted, as lawmakers try to balance conflicting interests.
Lawmakers, through various mechanisms, have significantly driven up the cost of energy. They began and renewed cap-and-trade, which the Legislative Analyst's Office forecasts will raise gasoline prices in the years ahead - so the state can keep pushing its bullet train, which is heavily dependent on cap-and-trade funding.
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Chinese electric and hybrid vehicles makers are bracing for a downturn, after consumers flocked to showrooms before the government scaled back its subsidy programme designed to promote green vehicles in June.
Analysts said anecdotal evidence points to a downturn in the new-energy vehicle (NEV) segment in July, the first full month of sales since the government's revised subsidies came into effect.
"Sales are set to slow in the remaining year because those customers keen on owning a NEV car have already bought," said Shen Wei, an auto analyst with UBS. "The industry had been overly optimistic about the NEV segment earlier."
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Policy support for electric vehicles is waning in key markets around the world, potentially softening EV sales and pushing back forecasts for a peak in global oil demand, according to a new report by Rapidan Energy Group.
The energy consulting firm's updated Decarbonization Policy Tracker found that the U.S. and China - the world's two largest EV markets and primary drivers behind consensus expectations of peaking oil demand in transportation - are in the process of ratcheting back policy support for EVs.
In response to these policy shifts, Rapidan expects the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the International Energy Agency to revise their oil demand projections upward.
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