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Reuters
Cities and towns across the U.S. are taking action after a Reuters report identified thousands of communities where children tested with lead poisoning at higher rates than in Flint, Michigan.
From California to Pennsylvania, local leaders, health officials and researchers are advancing measures to protect children from the toxic threat. They include more blood-lead screening, property inspections, hazard abatement and community outreach programs.
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The Washington Post
The Trump administration has instructed officials at the Environmental Protection Agency to freeze its grants and contracts, a move that could affect everything from state-led climate research to localized efforts to improve air and water quality to environmental justice projects aimed at helping poor communities.
An email went out to employees in the agency's Office of Acquisition Management within hours of President Trump's swearing-in.
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Small Business Trends
If you're like many small business owners, your thoughts are already turning towards preparing for tax season.
And an important part of that preparation should be looking for ways to potentially save your business a lot of money: namely deductions!
Need a refresher on what's deductible? Then watching this video on the top 10 tax deductions for small businesses should help.
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Engineering News-Record
More than two million construction workers are employed in energy-related activities, according to the U.S. Energy Dept.'s second annual national energy employment analysis released Jan. 13.
The study found 32 percent of the construction industry's workforce is employed on energy projects. The majority, 1.4 million employees, are in the energy efficiency sector. Another 425,000 are working in transmission, distribution and storage construction, while 250,000 are in generation and fuels construction sectors.
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Construction Dive
There has always been a complex kind of tension between labor and management, and that relationship — ideally adversarial without being contentious — is necessary so that each side’s leadership can advance their respective agendas. One of the most hot-button issues that consistently tests that relationship is the project labor agreement.
Simply put, a PLA is a collective bargaining agreement that sets terms for the type of workers that contractors must utilize on a project, how much they are to be paid and what kind of benefits their employers must offer.
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For Construction Pros
There has never been a greater need for skill training in the construction industry than there is today. This is not earth-shaking news for most contractors and construction leaders, but it should be noted that this need is, in fact, much greater than in years past and doesn't appear to be fading away anytime soon.
This article's focus is on skill training. With fewer vocational schools, technical colleges that include construction-based skills (i.e. carpentry, welding, masonry, electrical, etc.,) and even fewer "shop" classes for middle school and high school students, it is even more crucial that contractors train their workers on the skills their company needs.
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Bloomberg
Confidence among U.S. homebuilders retreated in January from an 11-year high, suggesting optimism has plateaued following Donald Trump's election victory, a report from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo showed recently.
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