by Ben Hunkler | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Newsletter
ORVI Insider December 22, 2020 In this edition of the ORVI Insider, our last newsletter of 2020, we highlight a new article from Senior Researcher Eric de Place on why plastics market trends indicate a dim economic outlook for...
by Joanne Kilgour | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In recent research with colleagues Michal Roth (Tel Aviv University), Paulina Jaramillo, and Peter Adams (Carnegie Mellon University) I explored how the energy system in the U.S. would respond to carbon tax policies. We explored near term carbon tax policies up until...
by Eric de Place | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The Ohio Valley petrochemical buildout is in big trouble. You know it when you hear things like this: “The Zeitgeist has shifted, and this is a permanent shift.” Those are not the words of an anti-fracking activist or an ocean conversation group. That’s the...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Reduced emissions, lower utility bills, and economic development for small-town Pennsylvania ORVI testimony before the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (On December 11, 2020, ORVI senior researcher, Sean O’Leary, testified before the Pennsylvania...
by Ben Hunkler | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog Posts, Newsletter
ORVI Insider December 8, 2020 A Message from Our Executive Director The days may be getting colder, but the energy debate is just heating up. Joe Biden has made it clear that addressing climate change...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
JOBS, SAVINGS, AND HEALTHIER FAMILIES The funny thing about opponents of Pennsylvania’s proposed membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is that the terrible things they say will happen if Pennsylvania joins RGGI are exactly the things that...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog Posts, Newsletter
A Message from Our Executive Director It has been a long couple of weeks in what has felt like a very long year. As we process the aftermath of the 2020 election, we are preparing to meet a new presidential administration and returning to face the...
by Eric de Place | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
If you watched the presidential debates or listened to political advertisements in Pennsylvania, you might be forgiven for thinking that fracking enjoys strong support with voters. President Trump attacked Joe Biden vociferously and repeatedly (and falsely) for...
by Ted Boettner | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
If policymakers at the state and federal level want to build a strong economy with good paying jobs in the Ohio River Valley region it will require raising wages, improving job quality standards, and increasing disposable income of workers. That’s because most...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog Posts, Fair Democracy, Research
The 2020 election has taken place against the backdrop of a pandemic, a racial justice movement, and record-setting political spending–projected to total nearly $14 billion, a figure greater than the GDP of Armenia. For a culture that is used to immediate...
