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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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Louisiana Economic Development Wins Deal of the Year: Bronze Award

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billion ethylene production complex on a 1,000-acre Greenfield site in St. billion ethylene production facility along the Mississippi River in Southeastern Louisiana. Louisiana has the most extensive network of pipelines in the nation, and offers unmatched supply-chain access to domestic markets via railroads and barges.

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Virginia Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Defense Production Zones: Virginia authorizes its communities to establish local defense production zones to benefit businesses engaged in the design, development or production of materials, components or equipment required to meet the needs of national defense. Virginia Port Tax Credit Programs. Green Job Creation Tax Credit.

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Repower off-highway diesel equipment with EPA-compliant replacement engines

CK Power

North America’s leading railroad company once called us on a Friday to replace an engine for a critical piece of maintenance equipment. We disassembled the engine, reconfigured it to their specifications and, by Tuesday, the railroad company had their replacement engine. The value we provide during the engine replacement process.

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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. A process needs to be in place to move materials, services, people or any other “product” from point A to point B and possibly all the way to Z. trillion in 2011, a 6.6

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

They protect inventory and, when built right, improve on the efficiency with which that inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped. The 92,000-square-foot expansion to Spartan Light Metal Products in Sparta, Illinois. The value of these facilities cannot be overstated. Louis, Missouri. Internal factors.

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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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