Puerto Rico climbed one more notch in this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report,” landing in 30th place among 148 countries around the globe.
The United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish), an organization that represents the Puerto Rico automotive industry, recently launched the “Puerto Rico Automotive Industry Report 2012-2013.”
The annual U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report on the amount of toxic chemicals released to the land, air and water by industrial facilities in 2011 showed an 11 percent decrease for Puerto Rico over the past reporting year.