by Sean O'Leary | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Key Takeaways: Carbon capture & sequestration (CCS) is a still unproven and spectacularly expensive decarbonization technology that may have value in industrial sectors that have no other viable decarbonization options. The power generating sector is a very...
by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Aug 15, 2024 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently announced that, if elected, she would not ban fracking, re-igniting a debate that has roiled national politics again and again. Her new position seems to be based on the mistaken belief that fracking enjoys public support,...
by Eric de Place and Zane Gustafson | Aug 8, 2024 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
A new plan to expand a New England gas pipeline would drive more fracking in Appalachia’s colossal gas reserves. “Project Maple” is a proposal by the Canadian energy company Enbridge to expand its Algonquin Gas Transmission Pipeline by 25%, or 750 million cubic feet...
by Joanne Kilgour | Jul 22, 2024 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
On behalf of the Clean Power PA Coalition, a group of more than 40 clean energy, conservation, and community organizations committed to protecting Pennsylvania’s environment and powering its economy through clean energy, we’re thrilled—but not...
by Ben Hunkler | Jul 5, 2024 | Blog Posts
Nearly a year and a half since a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous petrochemical materials derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, sparking one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, community members are calling on the Department of Justice to hold a...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Lately we hear a great deal about hydrogen’s environmental and economic promise. But hydrogen deployment also carries risks, not just for health and safety, but economic risks, including higher prices, taxes, and utility bills along with little potential for job...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
In all, the states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have 85 non-peaker coal and gas-fired power plants with capacities of 100 MW or greater. The following chart lists the plants alphabetically and indicates each plant’s owner, location, start date,...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 11, 2024 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Almost three years ago I wrote a blog post titled, “Renewable Energy: The New Texas Tea.” In it, I compared changes in electric rates in Texas, where what would become a rapid transition to renewable energy was gathering steam, with changes in rates in Ohio,...
by Ben Hunkler | Jun 6, 2024 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The Shell Polymers Monaca petrochemicals complex shadowing the banks of the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, has become something of a symbol in Appalachia. To the many families nearby, it represents a constant, draconic threat, belching episodic flames,...
by Joanne Kilgour | Apr 4, 2024 | BIL/IRA Implementation Digest, Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Heavy industry is Pennsylvania’s biggest source of climate pollution and a principal cause of various environmental health concerns in frontline environmental justice communities. A new program known as Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania, or RISE PA,...
