by Eric Dixon | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog Posts
For more than 150 years, Appalachia has provided the cheap energy that has powered the nation’s industrial growth and helped construct the middle class. But Appalachian communities did not fuel our nation’s prosperity without a cost – thousands of environmental...
by Eric Dixon | Mar 18, 2021 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
This afternoon, Congress will hold a hearing on a slew of bills that seek to clean up land and water damaged by the coal industry before it was regulated in 1977. The hearing rightly highlights the urgency of reauthorizing fees on coal production that fund cleanup,...
by Eric Dixon | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog Posts
On February 3rd, 2021, the Ohio River Valley Institute convened a forum of experts from finance, policymaking, and the petrochemical industry to assess the future prospects for the creation of a petrochemical hub in the greater Ohio Valley. View a recording of the...
by Eric Dixon | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog Posts
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region. Many...
