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output. The boom quickly sent gas prices to historic lows, but output kept rising because high oil prices made it profit- able for producers to keep drilling in fields that yielded both oil and gas," the Journal reported. "Some analysts say the slowdown in natural gas output is more widespread than in previous slumps." To read more about this story, and for a link to the original Wall Street Jouranl post, visit americanenergycoalition.com and while there, please consider becoming an AEC Member Supporter by pressing the "Make a Donation" Button to make a secure online contribution. PPA JOINS EASTERN ENERGY EXPO As previously announced, the National Association of Oil and Energy Service Professionals and the Atlantic Region Energy Expo will be partnering for a joint trade show next year at the Foxwoods Casino Resort in Ledyard, Conn. The name of the event will be the Eastern Energy Expo. This will be a much larger e v e n t a n d d r a w a v a r i e d a u d i e n c e . Additionally, the Pennsylvania Petroleum Association has joined the event. As OESP noted in an announcement, each party will maintain their autonomy where special events are concerned. For example, OESP will have its Monday Opening Reception, Tuesday Awards Function and its own hospitality. AREE will host its traditional Hospitality Night. OESP will focus on technical education and AREE on the management training. OESP's Annual Golf Tournament that supports its scholarship will be held on Monday and all parties will strive for the goal of supporting the scholarships. The Care to Ride event will be held on Monday as well. The Trade Show will be merged and be bigger and offer a full array of products and support services used by the energy industry. There will be two levels of show space and the popular outdoor area for live burner firing. ATA Calls on FMCSA to Quickly Move to Risk-Based Enforcement Programs ATA: REPORT SHOWS SAFETY PROGRESS ONGOING, MORE TO BE DONE American Trucking Associations called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to accelerate the agency's efforts to integrate more risk-based assess- ments into its enforcement programs in light of a new report made public by the Department of Transportation. "We appreciate the Department and FMCSA finally making public the report and recommendations the independent review team submitted to the Secretary of Transportation last July," said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. "It is clear that, since receiving it last summer, FMCSA has been taking some positive steps to respond accordingly. It's also clear that much more remains to be done." The report was issued by an inde- pendent review team appointed by the Secretary of Transportation in response to two specific National Transportation Safety Board recommendations. During investigations of four serious commercial motor vehicle crashes, NTSB found that FMCSA had failed to identify significant safety issues during prior audits of the motor carriers involved in the crashes. "ATA is particularly pleased that the Independent Review Team highlighted the critical need for FMCSA to better align compliance and enforcement programs with the risks that actually cause crashes," said ATA Executive Vice President and Chief of Advocacy Dave Osiecki. "A number of stakeholders, including the Government Accountability Office, have observed the agency is often focused on compliance issues that do not bear a rela- tionship to crash risk." The report presents a range of rec- ommendations relating to FMCSA's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, more efficient use of field enforcement resources, ways to make on-site compliance reviews more effec- tive and measures to incent carrier-based, non-regulatory safety initiatives. For instance, the report points out CSA could be more effective if behaviors directly and immediately connected to crash risk were separated from "form and manner" com- pliance issues. In particular the report discussed how, during on-site audits, investigators some- times ignore violations that may relate to crash risk in favor of paperwork issues that are easier to document and more readily available. Calendar of Events SEPTEMBER, 2015 FW Webb's New Hampshire Expo NH Motor Speedway, Laconia, NH Oil Heat Institute of Long Island Fall Outing September 14 St. George's Golf & Country Club, Stony Brook, NY 631-360-0200 info@ohili.org Pacific Oil Conference September 8-10 JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE! Los Angeles, Calif. PPA 2015 Fall Energy Conference and Annual Meeting September 28-30 Omni Bedford Springs Resort & Spa Bedford, Pa. Contact: rwillis@papetroleum.org or (717) 939-1781 OCTOBER, 2015 NACS Show October 11-14 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nev. www.nacsonline.com/NACSShow OPIS 7 th Annual RFS2, RINs & Biodiesel Forum October 15-16 Chicago Marriott Downtown Chicago. IL. 888-301-2645 8 th Integer Emissions Summit USA & DEF Forum 2015 October 27-29 Hyatt Regency & Convention Center McCormick Place Chicago, Il. Contact: James Hobday: james.hobday@integer-research.com DATELINE BREAKING NEWS 4 AUGUST 2015 | FUEL OIL NEWS | www.fueloilnews.com