by Sean O'Leary | Aug 27, 2022 | Blog Posts
The recently signed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers coal and gas-fired power plants as well as factories and other carbon-emitting facilities a tax credit that will pay them $85 for every metric ton of carbon they capture and sequester underground. The goal is to...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 8, 2022 | Reports
Download as PDF Key Takeaways: Policymakers’ pursuit of natural gas development is failing rural Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania policymakers of both parties are driving efforts to expand the state’s natural gas economy despite mounting evidence that the decade-long...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 8, 2022 | Videos
Pennsylvania policymakers of both parties are driving efforts to expand the state’s natural gas economy despite mounting evidence that the decade-long production boom has failed to stem or even reduce job and population losses in rural counties where the...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 22, 2022 | Blog Posts
Finally, a reporter has asked a question that should have been asked from the beginning about the proposed Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub for Western Pennsylvania – What will it cost? Unfortunately, none of the people Anya Litvak interviewed could provide an answer....
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 18, 2022 | Blog Posts
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) torpedoed the Build Back Better bill because, he said, it is too costly. But the fleet of hydrogen hub projects he is now promoting for locations around the nation, one of them in the Ohio River Valley, may cost nearly as much, they will...
by Sean O'Leary | Feb 15, 2022 | Press Releases
Biden Administration's Plan for American Leadership in Clean Manufacturing Must Prevent Misuse of Hydrogen, Carbon Capture...
by Sean O'Leary | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog Posts
The recent movie, “Don’t Look Up”, parodies our response to the climate crisis and, in particular, political leaders whose attitude seems to be, “Sure, we’ll all die if we don’t change . . . but can’t we do it in a way that takes care of me and my donors?” For those...
by Sean O'Leary | Nov 19, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
January 25, 2022 may become the day the music died for a number of the remaining Appalachian coal-fired power plants. That’s when PJM, the regional transmission operator (RTO) that manages wholesale energy markets in all or parts of 13 mid-Atlantic and midwestern...
by Sean O'Leary | Nov 16, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
I’m old. And for nigh on to fifty years I have been listening to politicians and oil and gas executives soberly invoke “energy independence” as a a noble goal that is necessary to preserve our freedom and way of life. Starting in the 1970s, a decade...
