by Ben Hunkler | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Fair Democracy, Shared Prosperity
The Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) launched one year ago, in August 2020, as an independent, nonprofit think tank designed to equip the region’s residents and decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to advance long-term solutions to...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
According to a recent report from S&P Global/Platts, “PTTGC America’s final investment decision on a new petrochemical complex in southeast Ohio remains on indefinite hold until the company secures a new partner in the project, the company said in an email...
by Eric de Place | Aug 16, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
In the last few months, hydrogen has garnered serious hype across the Ohio Valley as the zero-emissions fuel of the future. But should proponents’ claims be taken at face value? Is more skepticism warranted? What is hydrogen, really, and what are its uses and...
by Eric de Place | Jul 29, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Fair Democracy
Pennsylvania has officially soured on fracking. A groundbreaking new opinion poll released today by the Ohio River Valley Institute shows that, by wide margins, state voters support a serious crackdown on fracking operations. The poll shows that voters across all...
by Eric de Place | Jul 29, 2021 | Clean Energy, Fair Democracy, Reports
A groundbreaking new opinion poll released today by the Ohio River Valley Institute shows that, by wide margins, state voters support a serious crackdown on fracking operations. The poll shows that voters across demographics are deeply concerned about the impacts of...
by Ted Boettner | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
This blog post was originally published by the Union of Concerned Scientists at https://blog.ucsusa.org/guest-commentary/appalachia-poised-to-be-part-of-shift-to-clean-energy/ For over 150 years, the Appalachian region has provided the cheap energy that has...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Clean Energy, Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click to view and download If there are some industries in which immense amounts of investment and economic growth can fail to produce significant increases in jobs and prosperity, might there be other kinds of industries and activities in which much...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity, Strategic Communications
Don’t look now, but it’s late-June – season of the summer solstice and the now annual announcement by PTTGC that, despite previous assurances, it must yet again delay a final investment decision on the proposed ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio. Recall that in...
by Eric de Place | Jun 15, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Fair Democracy
In response to Pittsburgh protests over fracking and petrochemical development in the region, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald uttered a string of half-truths and factual distortions about the impacts of the industry. As a corrective to Fitzgerald and other...
by Eric de Place | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
To see the future of the Ohio River you can look to a place that is almost its antipode: the tropical coastal waters of Sri Lanka. It’s there, some 9,000 miles away as the crow flies, that residents have recently discovered the scourge of pollution from the tiny resin...
