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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

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Base year GHG inventory is step one and determines your facilities carbon footprint, Step 2 is Reducing Carbon Footprint, Step 3 = Offset. Buffer zones. The journey towards efficient life-cycle management of the built environment, carbon literacy, and LEAN process is not easy. How to reduce the carbon footprint of a building?

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Shovel-Ready Sites: Ready To Hit The Ground Running

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are implementing site certification programs that give available sites a shovel ready designation—meaning that the site is primed and ready for economic development. To achieve certification, sites go through a rigorous review process. States across the U.S. The outcome?

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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states have launched site certification programs with the goal of helping communities prepare available sites for investment and expansion. Since its inception in 2008, the program has recognized 47 active AdvantageSite locations in the state after meeting guidelines such as utility and environmental standards, size, zoning and accessibility.

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas boasts one of the most business-friendly environments in the U.S. Kansas also has no personal property tax, no inventory tax and no franchise tax. Kansas’ strong business environment is supported by one of the state’s most valuable assets—a skilled and dedicated workforce. Photo: Kansas Department of Commerce.).

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Location Focus: New York – The Empire State Leverages Its Strengths

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The program transforms State University of New York (SUNY) campuses, private colleges and universities, and university communities across the state into tax-free zones for new and expanding businesses. ?Business Just next door to Long Island MacArthur Airport is Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) #52.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Inventory is exempt from property tax. Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act. The program provides state and local tax incentives and non-tax incentives to businesses and industries located within Alabama’s Enterprise Zones.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. ENTERPRISE ZONES: Businesses located within the boundaries of an EZ are eligible for tax credits. LAMBRA zones are a companion to EZs.

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