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April 22, 2024
The Associated General Contractors of America released today a new, first-of-its-kind, decarbonization playbook designed to help firms assess, track and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the projects they build. The new resource, titled The AGC Playbook on Decarbonization and Carbon… Read More
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Congress this week passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government until March 4 and President Obama promptly signed the bill. The CR was necessary because Congress failed to pass any of the 12 appropriation bills this year, and the government has been running on a series of short-term… Read More
December 22, 2010
In other lame duck action, Congress gave final approval to legislation reauthorizing the Diesel Emission Reduction Act of 2010 (DERA), which established a voluntary national and state-level grant and loan program for retrofitting diesel equipment.
AGC has been working through a broad coalition… Read More
December 22, 2010
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Friday approved revised off-road diesel emissions rules that were negotiated this year by AGC of America. The revisions will give struggling construction firms time to comply with off-road diesel emissions rules while delivering lower emissions than the… Read More
December 21, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division (WHD), the agency responsible for enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and other laws, has announced a new attorney referral initiative with the… Read More
December 21, 2010
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, has appointed Jim Maddux as the new director of the agency’s Directorate of Construction, effective Monday, Dec. 20, 2010.
Maddux most recently served in OSHA’s Directorate of Standards and Guidance as the… Read More
December 21, 2010
The House Republican Conference has approved Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for the 112th Congress. Mica was ranking Republican for the past four years when Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.) chaired the committee. From 2000 to 2006, he… Read More
December 21, 2010
The AGC Lean Construction Forum hosted a webinar titled: “Lean Construction in Practice Through ‘Real World’ Applications” on November 30. Eighty three people registered, and dozens more participated.
The webinar featured Forum Chair Chuck Greco and two contractors who explained how they have… Read More
December 21, 2010
The week before Christmas brought glad tidings to construction. But some stockings were stuffed with lumps of coal.
First, Reed Construction Data reported that the value of nonresidential starts in November soared 35 percent from October’s level and 13 percent above the November 2009 total. Even… Read More
December 21, 2010
U.S. population increased 9.7% from 2000 to 2010, down from the 13.2% growth rate of the previous decade and the slowest 10-year growth rate since 1930-40, the Census Bureau reported today. Nevada again had the highest growth rate (35%) among states but also the biggest slowdown (31 percentage… Read More
December 21, 2010
On December 6, 2010, 15 real estate and construction organizations, including AGC of America, sent comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the agency to obtain more data before proceeding with potential new regulations covering lead dust in public and commercial buildings… Read More
December 20, 2010