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New Survey Shows How Nation’s 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’s failure to invest in construction… Read More

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Construction Employment Increases in 269 Metro Areas Between December 2016 & 2017 as Officials Call for New Infrastructure Funding
Construction employment increased in 269 out of 358 metro areas between December 2016 and December 2017, declined in 43 and stagnated in 46, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said new… Read More
February 6, 2018
GAO Weighs in on Environmental Streamlining
AGC has been involved in efforts to streamline the environmental review and permitting process since the late 1990s to allow transportation and other infrastructure projects to progress to construction quicker. While there have been many successes, the effort continues to today as AGC works with… Read More
February 5, 2018
Obama Admin. 2015 WOTUS Rule Delays
Status Quo Remains in Effect Implementation of the Obama administration’s 2015 “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule—which expands federal environmental permitting jurisdiction involving wetlands—has been delayed. On Jan. 31, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army… Read More
February 5, 2018
The One Question That Can Dramatically Increase Your Proposal Wins
Matt Handal, Founder of Help Everybody Every Day In a fiercely competitive environment, as we’ve been experiencing over the past few years, small differences can play a major role in whether you win or lose a proposal competition. Let’s be honest with ourselves. We all provide the exact same… Read More
February 1, 2018
Construction Jobs Increase in 42 States Between December 2016 and December 2017; 32 States & D.C. Add Jobs Between November & December
Forty-two states added construction jobs between December 2016 and December 2017, while 32 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between November and December, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released today.… Read More
January 26, 2018
AGC Urges Trump Administration to Rescind President Obama's Project Labor Agreement Executive Order
AGC this week urged President Trump to rescind President Obama’s project labor agreement (PLA) executive order and replace it with a new order.  AGC asked President Trump to issue a new order that ensures fair and open competition on federal construction contracts by preventing… Read More
January 26, 2018
EPA Deregulatory Actions to Outweigh Impact of New Rules in 2018
On Dec. 14, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Semiannual Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions and Regulatory Plan as part of the government-wide Unified Agenda—setting the path for the agency over the next year. Of particular interest to contractors… Read More
January 25, 2018
National Construction Group Provides Nearly $200,000 to Texas Construction Workers to Help Cover Damages Incurred During Hurricane Harvey
The ҵ Charities Inc, the charitable arm of the Associated General Contractors of America, is providing 83 construction workers in Texas with a total of $195,000 in donated funds to help cover losses they incurred as a result of Hurricane Harvey. The checks, which amount to $2,350 per construction… Read More
January 24, 2018
Supreme Court Sends Legal Challenges to 2015 WOTUS Rule Back to Lower Courts; 'Hold' on Rule Expected to be Lifted
On January 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that legal challenges to the 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule belong in the district rather than appellate courts.  In short, this Supreme Court decision will result in lifting an appellate court’s nationwide stay of the… Read More
January 24, 2018
AGC Testifies in Support of NEPA/404 Permitting Merger
House Transportation Committee Considers Environmental Streamlining On Jan. 18, AGC’s Senior Counsel on Environmental Law and Policy Leah Pilconis testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in support of further federal environmental review and permit… Read More
January 19, 2018

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