ACEC has urged Hill leaders to delay the implementation of a regulation banning several telecommunications items that is scheduled to take effect on August 13.

ACEC Montana hit its annual ACEC/PAC fundraising target this week. Fundraising for ACEC/PAC has been difficult during the pandemic, so we asked ACEC Montana PAC Champion John Shoff to tell us how the M.O. did it.

On the latest Engineering Influence podcast, Ed Mortimer, vice president for Transportation and Infrastructure at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, talks about prospects for new surface transportation, WRDA, and economic stimulus legislation and discusses grassroots lobbying during the pandemic and the new NEPA regulations.

Thank you to those of you who have already contacted your senators in support of major infrastructure legislation. We need to keep up the pressure to urge Senate action in July to support the nation’s economic recovery.   

ACEC's Dan Hilton reports on the Council support of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would delay by more than a year a looming restriction on certain telecommunications equipment due to take effect on August 13.