by Tom Torres | May 7, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Last month, a representative for Tenaska — the company seeking to build the Tri-State Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Hub — testified before the Ohio House Natural Resource Committee in support of House Bill 170. If passed and signed into law, this bill would...
by Nick Messenger | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog Posts
The Ohio House of Representatives recently released its proposal for the next two years of school funding. Despite claims that the new plan gives schools more money than they received in 2025, the new proposal actually reduces funds for almost all of Ohio’s public...
by Sean O'Leary | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
The central claim of the Heritage Foundation’s special report that, because of New York’s ban on fracking, counties in the Marcellus region “lost out on around $11,000 per resident or $27,000 per household” is simply wrong. Why? Because . . . Very little...
by Tom Torres | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Legislators in Ohio seek to establish a regulatory framework for the long-term, geologic storage of carbon dioxide in order to provide the clarity needed to attract developers to the state. But, HB170 and SB136 go far beyond this simple goal. If passed, these two...
by Virginia Alvino Young and Ben Hunkler | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Let’s talk about coal. Yes—coal, the black rock that powered much of America’s past. Lately, some leaders have been trying to bring it back in a big way. But here’s the truth: no matter what policies are put in place, the coal industry is on its way out—and trying to...
by Tom Torres | Mar 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) was always a questionable prospect. Since 2021, the Ohio River Valley Institute has asserted that carbon capture and blue hydrogen, the technologies underpinning what later became the hub, are prohibitively expensive and only...
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Key Points Northern Appalachia has, for a decade and a half, premised its economic development strategies on a strategic triad of natural gas, petrochemicals, and most recently hydrogen. Natural gas expansion has proven itself incapable of delivering on promises of...
by Deirdre Lally | Mar 17, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics
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...
by Ben Hunkler | Mar 11, 2025 | Blog Posts
Joanne Kilgour: Today’s discussion comes on the heels of an executive order signed by President Trump reversing the Biden administration’s pause on pending and future applications for LNG export projects. We’ve gathered a panel of experts...
by Julia Stone and Eric de Place | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
The Biden administration’s pause on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits is over. On February 14, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued an order conditionally granting Commonwealth LNG to export liquefied natural gas from its proposed terminal near Cameron,...
