Due to a recent spike in trenching fatalities, OSHA has updated the National Emphasis Program on preventing trenching and excavation collapses.

Michael Lee earned the 2018 Grassroots Excellence Award from RISE.

Work continues within the Trump Administration on the rewrite of WOTUS.

On Aug. 9, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the EPA to remove chlorpyrifos from sale in the United States within 60 days.

Nine new members were named to the GCSAA Grassroots Ambassador program for the Summer 2018 class.

A jury recently ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to a plaintiff who alleged that his cancer was the result of using Roundup.

GCSAA has been working with its allies in the H-2B Workforce Coalition to increase the number of H-2B visas available annually to golf facilities.

Actions are ongoing in the Trump Administration and Congress to repeal and replace the 2015 Clean Water Rule (also known as WOTUS).

OSHA provides have many resources available to employers to protect workers from heat-related illnesses and hazards.

GCSAA recently submitted public comment on the ongoing imidacloprid risk assessment.

On June 2, Bob Helland, GCSAA director of congressional and federal affairs, accompanied three golf course superintendents to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington.

On June 13 the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry marked up its version of legislation reauthorizing the nation’s agriculture and nutrition programs.

Twenty members were named to the GCSAA Grassroots Ambassador program for the Spring 2018 class.

The National Turfgrass Federation held its lobby day May 22 in Washington, D.C., to push for greater federal funding for turfgrass research programs.

On May 31, the Department of Homeland Security released the temporary Final Rule that will increase the H-2B cap by 15,000 visas.

GCSAA needs you to contact DHS/DOL and urge them to release the full amount of additional H-2B visas authorized by Congress in the Fiscal 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Act.

GCSAA and its allies in the golf industry and other sectors of the economy continue to advocate in Washington for a better version of WOTUS.

Legislation is pending in Congress that will have a considerable impact on golf course management. H.R. 2, the “Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018” (known as the "Farm Bill”) reauthorizes the nation’s agriculture and nutrition programs for the next five years.

Anthony Williams, CGCS, has been selected as the first recipient of the Grassroots Ambassador Leadership Award sponsored by The Toro Co. The award recognizes ambassadors who are raising the profile of golf through their consistent advocacy efforts.

GCSAA works with a number of issue-based coalitions as part of its advocacy efforts in Washington.