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New Survey Shows How Nation鈥檚 Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation鈥檚 failure to invest in construction鈥 Read More

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U.S. EPA and DOJ Announce Sensible Enforcement Efforts
Policy Revisions Track AGC Recommendations The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is piloting a new inspection policy that addresses several of AGC鈥檚 long-standing concerns and has the potential to improve the enforcement process and overall industry compliance. The Agency also released鈥 Read More
December 20, 2018
Year in Review - AGC's Environmental Advocacy Efforts
AGC鈥檚 efforts to engage with the Trump Administration on environmental streamlining and regulatory reform are seeing results.  Throughout the year, AGC further developed our relationships with the federal regulatory agencies through increased dialogue and meaningful collaboration.  In the鈥 Read More
December 20, 2018
Supreme Court Ruling Sets Limits on Critical Habitat under Endangered Species Act
A recent U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision found that critical habitat must be actual habitat for a species and that decisions not to exclude areas from critical habitat are subject to judicial review鈥攁 ruling that many are heralding as a check on regulatory overreach. In Weyerhaeuser Co. v. the鈥 Read More
December 18, 2018
2018 MSGP Annual Report Training Webinars
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host webinars on how to use the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)  eReporting Tool to submit Annual Reports for EPA鈥檚 Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP); those reports are due by January 30th for each year of permit鈥 Read More
December 18, 2018
New EPA Construction Stormwater Resources in Spanish
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published new resources in Spanish to help construction site operators comply with EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) construction stormwater permit program. Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Templates鈥 Read More
December 18, 2018
New EPA & Army Corps Rule Will Provide the Clarity Needed to Allow States to Keep Local Waters Clean
A new measure announced today by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will provide the kind of clarity needed to ensure that the waters of the U.S. continue to become even cleaner. The newly proposed clean water rule outlines clear and specific guidelines as to鈥 Read More
December 18, 2018
Construction Employment Rises by 5,000 Jobs in November and 282,000 for the Year; Hourly Pay Jumps 3.7 Percent, Unemployment Rate Falls to 3.9 Percent
Construction employment increased by 5,000 jobs in November and by 282,000 jobs over the past year while the industry鈥檚 average pay continued increases and unemployment decreased to a historic low, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America.鈥 Read More
December 18, 2018
Register Now for the Next AGC In_House Environmental Managers Meeting
February 20, 2019, at AGC鈥檚 Headquarters in Arlington, Va. Registration is now open for the AGC In-House Environmental Managers (IHEM) meeting on Feb. 20, 2019, in Arlington, Va.  Join your peers at AGC鈥檚 Headquarters for a day spent in discussion of solutions to the challenges on your to-do鈥 Read More
December 17, 2018
2018 Collective Bargaining Through Q3 Yields First-Year Increase of 3.0%
Collective bargaining negotiations settled from January through September of 2018 resulted in an average first-year increase in wages and benefits of 3.0 percent or $1.70, and a median of 2.6 percent or $1.43, according to the Construction Labor Research Council鈥檚 (CLRC鈥檚) latest Settlements Report鈥 Read More
December 17, 2018
Company Must Bargain with Union Before Adopting E-Verify
Enrollment in E-Verify is a mandatory subject of bargaining, the National Labor Relations Board (鈥淣LRB鈥 or 鈥淏oard鈥) recently held, and an employer committed unfair labor practice when it unilaterally enrolled without notify its workers鈥 union and offering an opportunity to bargain. The case鈥 Read More
December 14, 2018

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