Recent News
Admin February 26, 2025
NEFI Education Foundation and QSC Launch Continuing Education Partnership Initial Offering, Service Manager Peer Group Educational Program, Begins April 22 (Wilmington, MA, February 25) The NEFI Education Foundation and Quality Service Contracto...
Admin February 25, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is transmitting to Congress for review two major truck rules from the California Air R...
Admin February 25, 2025
NEFI members must submit an annual inventory of all hazardous chemicals requiring a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) by March 1 of each y...
Admin February 25, 2025
On Friday, February 21, the National Energy & Fuels Institute (NEFI) joined other national organizations in a letter to Secretar...
Admin February 20, 2025
The National Energy & Fuels Institute (NEFI) is pleased to announce Liam Dotson as its new Manager of Government Affairs. Liam brings a diverse background in advocacy, legislative analysis, and political action committee (PAC) management and compliance, along with valuable experience as a form...
Admin February 11, 2025
Newly confirmed U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have issued significant policy directives signaling major shifts in federal energy and environmental policy. These memos, sent to their respective agency staff, outline how each dep...
Admin February 11, 2025
On February 5, 2025, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee for Energy held a hearing titled "Powering America’s Future: Unleashing American Energy.” The discussion focused on how expanding domestic energy production and delivery can enhance national secur...
Admin February 11, 2025
As expected in the Trump Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly considering rescinding the agency’s waiver to the California Air Resources Board for its Advanced Clean Trucks rule. In addition, the agency is expected to reopen the rulemaking on greenhouse gases for...
Admin February 11, 2025
Under the federal Clean Air Act, once California obtained a waiver from the U.S. EPA to adopt its Advanced Clean Trucks rule, other states could choose to adopt the CARB rule or the federal EPA rule on truck and engine manufacturers emissions requirements. Now some states that had previously adopt...
Admin February 11, 2025
The Trump Administration has taken several actions to dismantle the Environmental Justice policies that underlie many agency rulemakings, grant making and other programs. In 1994, President Bill Clinton issued EO 12898, which was the first time federal agencies were directed to develop s...
Admin February 11, 2025
The White House has issued an Executive Order directing federal agencies that whenever an agency promulgates...
Admin February 11, 2025
The National Motor Freight Transportation Association has proposed a major proceeding, Public Docket 2025-1, to reclassify dozens of freight groups for truck transportation, including auto parts; cement; che...
Admin February 04, 2025
Late Monday, President Trump announced a temporary pause on sweeping tariffs on all products imported from Canada and Mexico for 30 days. The news broke after 11th-hour conversations between Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sheinbaum and Trudea...
Admin January 28, 2025
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) extended the Regional Declaration of Emergency covering the transportation of heating fuels with the addition of motor fuels in 39 other states through February 15, 2025. Access the ...
Admin January 28, 2025
There is a strong chance that President Trump will propose zeroing out the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) program, as he did during his first administration. Thanks to the advocacy of NEFI and its members, and our state association and coalition partners, Congress rejec...