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FEATURE STORY: Talking The Talk And Backing It Up With Results

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Perry identified the key factors that made Texas a consensus choice among national business publications this year as the state with the best business climate in the nation. I signed a bill in 2011 that provided a common-sense approach to regulating the hydraulic fracturing process. “I Credit: [link].

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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SelectUSA states that “A highly integrated supply chain network in the United States links producers and consumers through multiple transportation modes, including air and express delivery services, freight rail, maritime transport and truck transport. By Business Facilities Editorial Staff. From the March/April 2014 issue.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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Jerry Brown fired the two state regulators who had overseen a 70 percent decline in state drilling permits since 2008, a notable turnaround for a state leader who in his first stint as governor in the 1970s pioneered many of California’s landmark environmental protection statutes. Last year, CA Gov. Fort Irwin Projects.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Pennsylvania went from importing 75 percent of its natural gas requirements in 2007 to becoming a net exporter of natural gas in 2011; PA is now the second-largest natural gas producing state in the United States. So evolved is Louisiana’s pipeline infrastructure that the state’s No. times that of the Nos.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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Much of the foods found in grocery stores have been processed, and the industry remains one of the largest in the United States. 1,677 miles of class 1 railroads. 16,416 miles of state and U.S. Arkansas also has 22 smaller railroads operating over its more than 2,700 miles of track.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority Grants: Federal-state partnerships that work with the people of 37 Appalachian counties in Alabama and the Mississippi Delta region’s twenty Alabama counties to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Applicants must meet the same qualification criteria as Advantage Arkansas and must be approved by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. The credit will be equal to 20 percent of expenditures in the state related to the film production, and 25 percent for production returning to the state and independent films.

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