Construction employment remained mired in a five-year-long slump as the industry shed another 9,000 jobs from May to June, according to an analysis of federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America.
Association officials said that declines in public sector construction activity will negate any pickup in private sector demand unless Congress and [...]
NSSGA News: For Immediate Release
Contact: Peggy Disney
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 6 – NSSGA views the release of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s FY 2012 budget plan with mixed emotions. We applaud and share his interest in consolidating duplicative transportation programs as identified by the Government Accounting Office, focusing funding on the core elements of the [...]
TRANSPORTATION
Infrastructure Cuts Get Buried in Budget Brouhaha
by Fawn Johnson Thursday, April 7, 2011 | 9:30 p.m.
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Blumenauer: Peddled clean transportation funds.
Medicare and Medicaid have dominated this week’s escalating brawl over the House GOP’s fiscal 2012 budget plan. That’s not surprising, considering that Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has proposed fundamental shifts in those [...]
The House passed H.R. 662, The Surface Transportation Act of 2011, by a vote of 421-4 on March 2. This clean extension of the program at level funding until the end of FY 2011 on Sept. 30 now heads to the Senate where it is expected to be approved by Unanimous Consent. The current extension [...]
President Barack Obama’s $129 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation, in the first year of a comprehensive six-year transportation plan, would lay a new foundation for economic growth and competitiveness by rebuilding the nation’s transportation systems, enabling innovative solutions to transportation challenges and ensuring the highest level of safety for all Americans, U.S. [...]
Jobs are hard to come by in every U.S. city, but you stand a better chance of getting hired if you live in Washington, Dallas or Boston. Those three metropolitan areas topped the rest of the nation’s cities in jobs added in 2010.
And all three are home to industries that are poised to hire this [...]
White House officials confirm that Carol Browner plans to leave her post as President Barack Obama’s chief energy and environment advisor in coming weeks, but gave no specific timeframe for her departure. Browner’s departure occurs at a pivotal time when the White House is experiencing a massive shakeup to the President’s innermost circle of advisors. Browner, [...]
Carolyn Loder, Senior Land Manager for Aggregates, Ready Mix and Asphalt has been named the 2010 recipient of the National Association of Women in Construction — Crystal Vision Award.
This award is given to a non-member for their work in furthering women in the construction materials workplace as a role model and mentor for women.
The Association [...]
Mine Safety & Health Administration
Pit and Quarry – November 29, 2010
MSHA announced the second phase of its fatality-reduction program “Rules to Live by II: Preventing Catastrophic Accidents.” MSHA said this is the next step as it works to prevent fatalities, focusing on frequently cited standards at major and potentially major mine accidents. This past January, [...]
November 29, 2010
By: Pit & Quarry Staff
In early November, we saw another example of aggregate producers reaching out to their communities in an effort to educate and grow relationships. Three major producers with operations in Sun City, Ariz. – Vulcan, Lafarge and Cemex – hosted a tour of their mining sites. With demand on the [...]