May 1, 2023 Express Update

The Eastern Energy Expo will take place May 21 – 24, 2023 in Atlantic City, NJ. This annual expo and trade show brings together wholesale and retail liquid fuel marketers, motor fuel distributors, diesel and biodiesel distributors, propane marketers and HVAC service professionals. EEE 2023 is returning to the Mid-Atlantic region for the first time […]

Pennsylvania House lawmakers passed eight bipartisan bills, including four with unanimous approval, in the lower chamber’s return to session this week after a nearly two-month hiatus. With a narrow one-vote majority for the first time in more than a decade, House committees also cued up a blizzard of bills on Democratic policy priorities, such as […]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will once again suspend the ban on summertime sales of E15 blends. The EPA issued emergency waivers similar to last year that would allow E15 to be used nationwide between June 1 and September 15. The move comes after weeks of lobbying by lawmakers from corn producing states dissatisfied […]

On April 24, 2023, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil in a climate change case now proceeding in a Colorado state court. The case reached the Supreme Court after the Colorado court refused a move to transfer the case to a more hospitable federal court, and a […]

The EPA’s Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) has created three information sheets to assist UST owners and operators access several federal grant programs providing funds to upgrade tank systems by adding low or zero emission infrastructure at their facilities. The fact sheets offer comprehensive information on the grant funds available to energy marketers, how […]

There was a lot going on last week, but most of Washington was focused squarely on Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s efforts to pass a House bill to address the debt limit. And while the Speaker made very clear his bill was not going to be open for negotiation, at the eleventh hour, he made a deal […]