O&E Staff Reporter March 14, 2019
State legislatures across New England and the greater U.S. Northeast region have already seen a number of carbon tax bills proposed in 2019. These bills seek to limit carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by imposing a monetary penalty on each ton emitted by fue...
O&E Staff Reporter February 19, 2019
On December 18, 2018, the energy industry lost a Legend. Townsend family matriarch and longtime industry stalwart, 100-year-old Dorothy Townsend passed away surrounded by her loved ones....
O&E Staff Reporter February 19, 2019
In the January 2019 update of its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) includes the effects that upcoming changes to marine fuel sulfur specifications will have on crude oil and petroleum product markets....
Samuel Diamond February 19, 2019
There are those email subject lines that grab your attention and prompt a quick open: “Your @OIL&ENERGY December Newsletter,” perhaps. And then there are those email subject lines that make you drop everything and shout them verbatim from the highest...
Martin Kirshner, CPA, MSA, Gray, Gray & Gray LLP February 19, 2019
As a business owner, you want to build an organization that will continue to flourish after you have retired. That is particularly true in the fuel oil and propane industry, where family-owned companies are common. Yet the incidence of a family business b...
O&E Staff Reporter February 19, 2019
Talks of infrastructure reform as a potentially unifying issue have been making news since Donald Trump was elected president back in November 2016. Twenty-six months later, “President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch M...
