by Ted Boettner | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
While West Virginians are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to figure out if their kids can attend school, the oil and gas industry is working with the West Virginia State Tax Department to cut its property taxes by as much as $62 million per year. Last...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
Earlier this year, the Belomar Regional Council, an economic planning and development council comprised of governments in Belmont County Ohio, and Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel Counties in West Virginia, submitted an updated Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy to...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
“If our economy seems to be growing but that growth is not sustainable because we are destroying the environment and using up scarce natural resources, our statistics should warn us. But because GDP didn’t include resource depletion and environmental...
by Joanne Kilgour | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Newsletter, Research
A Message from Our Executive Director Last week, we lost one of my personal heroes and legendary lawyer and advocate for gender equality, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This loss leaves us with uncertainty around the political maneuvering we can expect...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Workers in West Virginia should be making $117,000 a year on average — and they would be too, if only we had pursued the same economic strategies we had in the 1970s. Instead, we’ve taken power away from workers, lowered taxes on the wealthy, and designed...
by Hayat Norimine | Sep 20, 2020 | Blog Posts, Fair Democracy
Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission from Sightline Institute. Read the original article here. In recent days and weeks Sightline has reported on jostling in Pennsylvania over measures to expand absentee voting access, including shifting...
by Hayat Norimine | Sep 17, 2020 | Blog Posts, Fair Democracy
[Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission from Sightline Institute. Read the original article here.] The state Supreme Court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority, For years, Pennsylvania’s election officials have been raising the alarm: The...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
How Saudi Arabia may cripple the US fracking boom and the Appalachian petrochemical buildout along with it It’s hard to conceive of a worse scenario for the nascent Appalachian petrochemical industry than a world in which the price of oil is chronically low,...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The fate of Appalachia’s natural gas and petrochemical boom depends on despotic regimes, foreign companies we’ve never heard of, and OPEC In a recent speech to an oil and gas conference, CNX Resources CEO Nick DeIuliis joined many in his industry, wrapping themselves...
by Joanne Kilgour | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog Posts, Newsletter
As we reflect on Labor Day, a day to honor the significant contributions of the American worker, we are also reflecting on the continued importance of the labor movement in our region and the role of the working class in shaping a more equitable and prosperous...
