by Eric de Place | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
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, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
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 Sean O'Leary | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
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 Ted Boettner | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
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 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Fair Democracy, Newsletter, Research
A Message from Our Executive Director Back at my desk in Pennsylvania, I have the strong sensation of being in the eye of a storm; the past few months of frenzied political campaigning and voter education have crescendoed, Election Day has arrived, and the gaze of...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Newsletter, Research, Shared Prosperity
Tim Puko of the Wall Street Journal recently reported that President Trump is weighing an executive order to study the economic impacts of fracking. The order, if issued less than a week before election day, will be a transparent attempt to contrast the president’s...
