by Ben Hunkler | Jun 7, 2022 | Digital Toolkits
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by Ben Hunkler | May 10, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
For generations, Appalachia has powered the nation’s industrial growth with our region’s bountiful reserves of coal, gas, and oil. Today, our communities are suffering the effects of that legacy of extraction—air and water pollution, rampant greenhouse gas emissions,...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 19, 2022 | Videos
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 earmarks $8 billion for a fleet of regional hydrogen hubs. There are already efforts in Harrisburg to designate one such hub in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and earlier this year, a group of natural gas, petrochemical,...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 15, 2022 | Videos
The oil and gas industry’s dream of a petrochemical cluster in Appalachia is collapsing. Years ago, oil and gas boosters claimed that fracking in Appalachia could generate a new petrochemical corridor in the Ohio River Valley, bringing more than 100,000 new...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 13, 2022 | Videos
A new report shows Diversified Energy, the nation’s largest owner of oil and gas wells, does not have enough funds to plug its entire catalog of wells. If Diversified or other companies that own low-producing wells in the region were to go out of business,...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 12, 2022 | Report Summary
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by Ben Hunkler | Apr 1, 2022 | Videos
Hydrogen made from methane and carbon capture are wildly expensive technologies that would raise taxes and electricity rates and boost costs for Ohio River Valley families. These technologies wouldn’t create many permanent jobs and would prolong drilling...
by Ben Hunkler | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog Posts
(Source: Yale Climate Connections) Senior Researcher Sean O’Leary joins Dr. Anthony Lieserowitz and Yale Climate Connections to discuss the remarkable economic turnaround taking place in Centralia, Washington. For years, Centralia and surrounding...
by Ben Hunkler | Mar 8, 2022 | Videos
Bitcoin is on the verge of going mainstream, with some companies — and even countries — recognizing the cryptocurrency as legal tender. The market cap of Bitcoin now surpasses both Facebook and Tesla, and it also recently became the 13th largest currency in the...