by Wendy Patton | Aug 11, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
This is the first blog in a series of local economic development initiatives strengthening local economies and anchoring investment in Appalachian Communities of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. Economic loss and community decline is generally...
by Ben Hunkler | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Update: In a resounding victory for Pennsylvanians and a vindication of public will, Allegheny County Council voted 12-3 to override County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s veto, codifying the ban on fracking and other industrial activities in county parks. The...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Last year, ReImagine Appalachia published an overview of Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) funding since 1965. We highlighted that non-highway funding for ARC has declined about $650 million annually since the late 1970s and early 1980s—when parts of the...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 22, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Finally, a reporter has asked a question that should have been asked from the beginning about the proposed Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub for Western Pennsylvania – What will it cost? Unfortunately, none of the people Anya Litvak interviewed could provide an answer....
by Ben Hunkler | May 10, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
For generations, Appalachia has powered the nation’s industrial growth with our region’s bountiful reserves of coal, gas, and oil. Today, our communities are suffering the effects of that legacy of extraction—air and water pollution, rampant greenhouse gas emissions,...
by Eric de Place | Apr 15, 2022 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The plastics industry is facing a triple threat. Product bans, public opinion, and corporate pledges all conspire to curtail future profits and undercut expansion plans. This trio helps explain why the ballyhooed petrochemical buildout in Appalachia has never...
by Eric de Place | Apr 4, 2022 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Last week, Ohio lieutenant governor John Husted spoke the unvarnished truth about the Ohio Valley’s long planned petrochemicals buildout. Responding to news about the perennially delayed project in Belmont County, he said, “The industry itself is not growing....
by Ted Boettner | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Earlier this month, we provided an explainer of the $4.7 billion federal orphaned well program that was included in the federal infrastructure legislation (the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021) and what that meant for states in the Ohio River Valley. To...
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 18, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) torpedoed the Build Back Better bill because, he said, it is too costly. But the fleet of hydrogen hub projects he is now promoting for locations around the nation, one of them in the Ohio River Valley, may cost nearly as much, they will...
by Ben Hunkler | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
(Source: Yale Climate Connections) Senior Researcher Sean O’Leary joins Dr. Anthony Lieserowitz and Yale Climate Connections to discuss the remarkable economic turnaround taking place in Centralia, Washington. For years, Centralia and surrounding...
