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2024 AGC & HCSS Highway Work Zone Safety Survey
May 23, 2024
  Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and workers at risk, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of… Read More

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AGC Successful in Advancing Clean Water Trust Fund and Other Water Infrastructure Provisions in Senate WRDA Bill
AGC and its industry coalition partners in the Water Infrastructure Network have been working for a number of months to get significant water infrastructure provisions included in the 2016 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) in the Senate. We were successful in getting many important provisions… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC-Backed $9 Billion Water Infrastructure Bill Advances
Senate Committee Approves Water Resources Development Act The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved an AGC-supported $9 billion Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which authorizes new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works construction projects, including locks, dams,… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC Wins Round One against Blacklisting Executive Order
Amendment Added to House Defense Bill In what may be a 12-round bout, AGC won round one to block President Obama’s Blacklisting Executive Order. Late last night, the House Armed Services Committee added an AGC-backed provision to the National Defense Authorization Act—a bill that has been annually… Read More
June 28, 2016
Senate Passes Energy Bill and Includes AGC-Supported Provisions
This week the Senate passed the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 by a vote of 85-12.  The comprehensive energy bill included several provisions supported by AGC, including reauthorizing the Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) program through 2021 at the current authorization level of $… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC-Supported FAA Bill Passes Senate
As reported last week, the Senate was working towards finalizing an AGC-supported reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. This week they passed the bill with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 95-3. The bill now heads to the House… Read More
June 28, 2016
FHWA Proposes Highway Performance Measurements - Suggests Addressing Global Warming
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking this week detailing performance measurements for congestion, freight, and on-road mobile source emissions for the National Highway System which it was required to do in the 2013 “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC Championed Language Included in Senate Transportation Funding Bill
The Senate Transportation Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the fiscal year 2017 budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT), which included a key provision AGC requested that would set certain conditions on a US DOT pilot program that enables the state or local grant… Read More
June 28, 2016
Pipeline Safety Bill Clears Committee
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved legislation to reauthorize the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and advance the cause of pipeline safety. H.R. 4937, the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016,… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC-Backed Suit to Block Fed's New Silica Rule to Be Heard in DC Circuit Court
Court officials announced late last week that an AGC of America-backed lawsuit to block the Obama Administration’s misguided new silica rule will be heard in the D.C. Circuit Court.  AGC, via the Louisiana AGC, filed suit in the 5th Circuit earlier this month to block the measure, arguing that… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC Calls on Congress to Block Labor Department Overtime Rule
This week AGC joined with hundreds of national and regional employer groups in support of the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act.  This legislation would require the Department of Labor to perform a detailed impact analysis prior to implementing their proposed changes to… Read More
June 28, 2016

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