The initiative, launched under President Obama, has been repealed. The Fair Play and Safe Workplaces Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2014. As Edward T. DeLisle and Carl J. Vernetti report in the Federal Construction Contracting Blog, bo

Obama-era rules are on hold pending further review. The Trump administration has postponed implementation of rules that would have required measuring the output of greenhouse gas emissions on federal highways. Timothy Cama, writing in THE HILL, brief

Sequestration of waste CO2 in old gas wells will be a boon for the coal industry. According to an Associated Press bulletin by Blake Nicholson reported in enr.com, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has approved a prop

The 2017 Construction SuperConference (CSC), to be held Dec. 4-6, 2017 in Las Vegas at the Encore at Wynn Hotel will dive into many legal construction practice areas. Now in its 33rd year, CSC is recognized as the preeminent construction conference d

President Trump has promised to rebuild America; our industry can help him do it. During the election campaign, Mr. Trump inspired those who elected him with the slogans—Make America Great Again and America First. His critics, over half of the peop

The court clarified the parameters of torts-premises liability. There is long-established precedent that a prime contractor is not liable for injuries to an employee of its subcontractor. This is known, in California, as the Privette doctrine. Howeve

The EPA’s action almost guarantees a legal challenge by environmental groups. During the Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aggressively pursued policies designed to improve air quality by regulating and reducing pollut

Environmentalists question the impact of a hydropower project on Joshua Tree National Forest. California leads the country in aggressively pursuing the use of renewable sources to generate power. This is an admirable and necessary goal but renewable

The California Supreme Court overturns the decision of the California Court of Appeals. Do unsuccessful bidders on a public works contract have a cause of action against the successful bidder if that bidder does not pay its workers at the local preva