by Ted Boettner | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Climate change is the single biggest challenge of the 21st century. The global community has just ten years to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half and less than thirty years to build a sustainable, carbon neutral economy that can protect the planet and public health...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
How the greater Ohio Valley can awaken from its natural gas and petrochemical fever dream to an economic future that actually delivers jobs and prosperity “Game-changer” – It’s amazing the word doesn’t stick in their throats. For a decade, policymakers in Ohio,...
by Eric de Place | Aug 9, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Pennsylvania’s gas industry is in big trouble. Cranking out over 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas annually, the state’s production ranks second in the nation (after Texas) and ahead of eight OPEC nations. But the decade-long boom in the Marcellus seems to be...
by Eric de Place | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
“Creating a lot of new feedstock and products for the kind of products we’re going to need in that bright, environmentally-healthy future.” That’s how Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf described the Beaver County cracker project this July while defending his support for...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
CNX Resources Corporation CEO, Nick DeIuliis, is a veritable rock star proponent of what he calls “the natural gas economy”. Videos of his speeches are widely shared within the Appalachian natural gas and petrochemical communities, he is frequently sought out for...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The following public letter concerning economic development, the petrochemical industry, and the need for more viable and sustainable strategies was sent to the governors of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania on June 15, 2020. See this background brief to learn...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
On June 15, 2020 a group of seven prominent economists and policy analysts from leading universities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and a former Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection, wrote a public letter to the governors of the three states...
