The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently canceled its solicitation for the construction of a $500 million to $1 billion federal currency printing plant in Beltsville, Maryland, on behalf of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

On Feb. 3, a federal judge struck down ABC-opposed revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act regulations governing federal environmental reviews that were issued in May 2024.

Learn About President Trump’s Executive Orders on DEI and Immigration Since President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Jan. 20, he has issued a sweeping set of executive orders that take aim at immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies.

Post your 2024 Occupational Safety and Health Administration 300A form by Feb. 1, 2025, and keep it posted through April 30, 2025.

On Jan. 13, 2025, the California Air Resources Board officially withdrew a request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for authorization of new regulations on locomotive emissions.

On Jan. 23, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a district court’s nationwide injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act’s Beneficial Ownership Information reporting requirements, following the U.S. Department of Justice’s request. The nationwide injunction had blocked enforcement of the CTA’s BOI reporting requirements. However, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s website, a separate national injunction issued earlier this month by a different federal judge still remains in place, and thus reporting companies are not currently required to file BOI with the FinCen despite the Supreme Court’s action.

On Jan. 20, ABC celebrated a court decision in favor of ABC members that filed bid protests challenging former President Joe Biden’s policy requiring anti-competitive, inflationary, union-favoring project labor agreements on federal construction projects of $35 million or more. “As a result of this decision, ABC federal contractors should continue to file bid protests against individual federal agency PLA mandates on a case-by-case basis and expect similar outcomes,” said ABC’s Ben Brubeck.

On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president and quickly issued a sweeping set of executive orders aimed at reversing Biden administration policies related to national security, immigration, climate and more. The orders require enactment through the regulatory process and will not take immediate effect; some have already been subjected to lawsuits that may delay implementation.

On Jan. 14, ABC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on its Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings proposed rule, urging the agency to withdraw the current rule as proposed and revise it to allow greater flexibility for affected industries, and at a minimum develop a separate standard for the construction industry.

In a win for federal contractors, on Jan. 13, the Federal Register published notification of the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council’s withdrawal of a controversial ABC-opposed proposed rule, Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk.