by Eric Dixon | Jan 7, 2026 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Blog Posts, Repairing the Damage
In a “minibus” bill released by the House Appropriations Committee this week, legislators are attempting to loot $500 million from the bipartisan fund used to clean up the country’s land and water polluted by coal mining. The bill would transfer $500 million in...
by Staff | Dec 19, 2025 | Blog Posts
Located along the Monongahela River, Clairton, Pennsylvania is a small city in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area with a population of around 6,000 people. Like much of the region, it has a rich history of industrial development, especially steelmaking, that began...
by Staff | Dec 19, 2025 | Blog Posts
This year, ORVI and our partners have worked to adapt and respond to an increasingly chaotic, uncertain environment. We’ve quantified stemmed funding flows for federal projects like old oil and gas well decommissioning, traced critical junctures in the storied...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Key findings: The expansion of AI and data centers is at present almost the sole driver of US economic growth, as measured by GDP. Because data centers are highly capital-intensive but not very labor-intensive, they have the potential to worsen income inequality and...
by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
A slew of fracked gas pipeline projects in the Midwest could open the valve of Appalachia gas even wider, fueling the buildout of gas-fired power plants and power-hungry data centers across the region. Chief among them is Boardwalk’s Borealis pipeline project, a...
by Justine Hackimer | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
US Steel announced Nov. 12 that it will build a new direct reduced iron (DRI) plant at its Big River Steel campus in Osceola, Arkansas. The company hasn’t shared many details yet, and an investor presentation from its parent company Nippon Steel shows that the project...
by Sean O'Leary | Nov 11, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Key findings: Data centers like other imagined “economic game-changers” are highly capital-intensive, non-labor intensive enterprises that create few jobs and inject little money into host communities. While data centers are contributing more than a billion dollars...
by Zane Gustafson | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
For the first time in this century, electricity demand is projected to rise across the United States, in large part due to rapid data center expansion. Utilities, merchant generators, and developers are rushing to build new power generating capacity, including across...
by Julia Stone | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Two of the biggest natural gas pipeline operators are squabbling over who will build the next big pipeline to increase Appalachia gas flows to southern Virginia and North Carolina. Williams owns and operates the massive Transco interstate pipeline that runs from the...
by Zane Gustafson | Sep 25, 2025 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Less than three months after its July passage, the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is already reducing the planned expansion of ammonia and hydrogen production. ORVI’s March 2025 report on the ammonia industry found that if all the proposed facilities as of October 2024...
