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Follow the $$: The Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act

So, where’s the more than $1 trillion in IIJA infrastructure funding? Hear from experts from the federal, state, and local levels—as well as leading economists—about how the money is flowing to projects during this essential webinar series.

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AGC Weighs in (Again) on Buy America

The association pushes back against the latest proposed guidance from the White House seeking to unrealistically restrict construction supply chains.

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Highway Funding Subsidizing Transit Operations?

White House proposes that highway construction funding be used to pay bus drivers, train operators, and other transit operational expenses.

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2023 AGC/FMI Study Reveals Top Risks Today and Tomorrow

Top risks identified in the survey results included price increases in materials and equipment, lack of skilled/craft labor, as well as lack of field supervisors.

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Semiconductor Project Gov’t Mandated PLAs?

AGC challenges Commerce Secretary to work with the association to help actually address construction workforce shortages by significantly increasing federal investments in career and technical education, not more mandates for project labor agreements on CHIPS Act-funded semiconductor facility projects.

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Bad Ideas Never Die

On February 23, members of Congress reintroduced the PRO Act, an ambitious attempt to overturn decades of federal labor policy that threatens both union and open-shop contractors.

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AGC Questions Citizen Environmental Enforcement

AGC of America, along with other allies, jointly submitted an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3 in support of a land developer’s request for review of a case that allows citizen enforcement even when the state environmental agency has begun enforcement for a Clean Water Act (CWA) violation.

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Climate Change Risks and Strategies for Contractors

Register now for this two-part series beginning on March 28 that will examine trends for sustainability and resiliency, drivers, risks, and strategies for success in reducing the environmental footprint of the built environment while also protecting assets from extreme weather and natural disasters.

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Lightfoot Loses in Chicago

The Chicago non-partisan mayoral primary is unofficially complete and as recent polling suggested was a possible outcome, incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) fell in defeat last without even qualifying for the secondary runoff election.

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TAKE ACTION: Stop Unrealistic Supply Chain Restrictions

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