The U.S. House of Representatives introduced the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act on Jan. 31, followed by a series of committee markups on the five-year, $260 billion surface transportation legislation. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., would like the...More>>

National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Mark Ellis, president of the National Industrial Sand Association (NISA), about the delayed rulemaking for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) crystalline silica standard. The rule has been under review by the White House’s Office...More>>

MSHA launched the third phase of an outreach and enforcement program designed to strengthen efforts to prevent mining fatalities. Rules to Live By III: Preventing Common Mining Deaths will focus on 14 safety standards that were chosen because violations related to each have been cited as...More>>

The bill was unveiled Jan. 31 on the Capitol lawn during a news conference.More>>

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood doesn't expect a reauthorization bill will pass during the current session of Congress.More>>

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will mark up the House’s surface transportation reauthorization bill, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012, on Feb. 2, according to an NSSGA report. The bill authorizes five years of level funding for highway, transit and...More>>

Construction employment rose in 28 states and the District of Columbia between December 2010 and December 2011, the largest number of states with year-over-year employment gains since November 2007, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data.More>>

Five years after states first started shedding construction jobs, construction employment remains below peak levels in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis released by the Associated General Contractors of America.More>>

NSSGA reports that MSHA has decided to “reverse its earlier effort to dismantle its Small Mine Office.”More>>

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms representing management, was named the first “Law Firm of the Year” in Litigation – Labor & Employment in the 2011-12 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings. Pit &...More>>