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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Green Building Law Update

Includes wood, wood waste, wood liquors, peat, railroad ties, wood sludge, spent sulfite liquors, agricultural waste, straw, tires, fish oils, tall oil, sludge waste, waste alcohol, municipal solid waste, landfill gases, other waste, and ethanol blended into motor gasoline. The atmosphere also contains clouds and aerosols.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

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They protect inventory and, when built right, improve on the efficiency with which that inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped. But no one’s resources are infinite. That way they’re not taken by surprise when you announce an expansion that requires additional connections to public resources.

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas also has no personal property tax, no inventory tax and no franchise tax. Kansas also has one of the best and most extensive railroad systems in the country; the state’s 4,776 miles of track account for 2.23 railroad miles. Kansas is a right-to-work state, bringing one additional cost saving to employers.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” In comparison, railroads are in a much better position regarding infrastructure, equipment and personnel. Spending in the U.S. trillion in 2012, a 3.4

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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

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From the people to the technology and the resources to the components, the system that moves a product from the supplier to the customer involves many steps. Logistics incorporates the complexity of integrating information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling and packaging. By Dominique Cantelme.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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1,677 miles of Class 1 railroads. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. In addition, the state has 22 smaller railroads operating over its more than 2,700 miles of track. In Arkansas, you will find: 1,000 miles of navigable waterways.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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percent in 2014 due to stronger shipment volumes and inventory carrying charges that were up 2.1 The county’s rich natural resources attract a number of industries such as Redland Brick that uses robotics to manufacture some of the highest quality bricks that are shipped to markets all along the east coast and beyond. percent in 2014.

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