by Ted Boettner | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog Posts, Videos
Last December, the Ohio River Valley Institute published Stayin’ Alive: The Last Days of Stripper Wells in the Ohio Valley, a report chronicling the more than 177,000 low-producing, “stripper” oil and gas wells in Appalachia that could soon become abandoned and would...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog Posts
Last year, ReImagine Appalachia published an overview of Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) funding since 1965. We highlighted that non-highway funding for ARC has declined about $650 million annually since the late 1970s and early 1980s—when parts of the ARC...
by Ted Boettner | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
Earlier this month, we provided an explainer of the $4.7 billion federal orphaned well program that was included in the federal infrastructure legislation (the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021) and what that meant for states in the Ohio River Valley. To...
by Ted Boettner | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog Posts
At the end of January, the Biden administration and the US Department of Interior (DOI) announced the first round of $1.15 billion in funding from a new federal orphaned well program to plug, remediate, and reclaim oil and gas wells. As part of the 2021 Infrastructure...
by Ted Boettner | Dec 16, 2021 | Reports
View and download the full report. View and download a one-page summary. In recent years, there has been growing concern over the millions of oil and gas wells that are no longer producing but are threatening the environment and public health and will cost tens of...
by Ted Boettner | Oct 13, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
In partnership with ReImagine Appalachia and Union of Concerned Scientists, the Ohio River Valley Institute is releasing a new report titled: Repairing the Damage: Cleaning up Hazardous Coal Ash Can Create Jobs and Improve the Environment. This report is the fourth in...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 29, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click here to view and download the full report. For much of its history, the Appalachian region has lagged the rest of the nation in measures of economic prosperity, health, education, and infrastructure. The region, especially central Appalachia, has been rich in...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 15, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
Momentum is growing for creating a 21st century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that would reduce carbon emissions, grow jobs, and restore our natural resources and environment. At least seven bills have been introduced in Congress this year to revive the CCC and...
by Ted Boettner | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
This blog post was originally published by the Union of Concerned Scientists at https://blog.ucsusa.org/guest-commentary/appalachia-poised-to-be-part-of-shift-to-clean-energy/ For over 150 years, the Appalachian region has provided the cheap energy that has...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
In early April, we released a report outlining the benefits of plugging and cleaning up orphan and abandoned oil and gas wells in Appalachia. Since that time, there have been several bills introduced in Congress to address the issue. These include the Orphan Well...
