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Author: Deirdre Lally

Deirdre Lally centers community empowerment as a means to healthier systems. She graduated from UMass Boston with a B.A. in Community Studies & Labor, and her work has focused on the impacts of fracking and mining in rural Pennsylvania – where she grew up. She recently worked with a regional food hub on local foods as economic alternatives, and brings a solutions approach to ORVI.

The Carbon Implications of Ammonia Production

An ammonia facility in Stockton-on-Tees, England.

The US is on the verge of an ammonia ‘boom,’ which could expand fracking and incentivize risky carbon storage infrastructure. But as with any boom, industrial expansion will eventually bring a bust. At least 37 new projects have been proposed around the country which could increase ammonia production by over 350% within a decade. Part […]

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Nov 13, 2026

Data Center Problems That Can’t be Solved

Data centers impose major costs and “crowding out” effects that are unavoidable—and rarely acknowledged by economic impact studies.

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Sean O’Leary

Energy

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Oct 30, 2026

Q3 Appalachian Gas Outlook: LNG, data centers, and new pipelines risk locking in exponential production growth

Gas-powered data centers and LNG exports are fueling a new wave of investment in pipelines to ship fracked gas out of Appalachia.

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