by Sean O'Leary | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Do you know a bad deal when you see it? Possibly not, if the deal has to do with something as arcane as leasing underground pore space to an oil and gas company that wants to dispose of carbon dioxide. But that’s the kind of deal property owners and elected officials...
by Sean O'Leary | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Attorneys who specialize in contracts know that a single phrase or just a word can completely alter the meaning and effect of a contract. The same is true . . . maybe even more true . . . of economic impact reports, which by their nature are speculative and...
by Staff | Jan 11, 2024 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Together, a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable Appalachia is possible. That’s the vision that has geared our data-driven research, guided our outreach and campaigns, and grounded our work in the region’s community and culture ever since the Ohio River Valley...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 22, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
The Inflation Reduction Act relies far more heavily on carrots than it does on sticks to induce industries to mitigate their carbon emissions. Tax credits for technologies such as carbon capture and sequestration actually exceed the costs companies would incur to...
by Staff | Dec 4, 2023 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download testimony Financial and regulatory support for the gas-based ARCH2 Appalachian Hydrogen Hub risks reduced economic growth, fewer jobs, and higher utility bills, taxes, and prices for Pennsylvanians, according to testimony delivered today at the...
by Staff | Oct 13, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The Ohio River Valley Institute published the following statement in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement of up to $925 million in federal funding for the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2). ARCH2 Blue Hydrogen Hub Threatens...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 9, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
via GIPHY OK, in fairness to everyone who has ever built a hamster wheel to generate electricity, it probably wasn’t about the electricity. It may have been about the merit badge, or your science grade, or just to satisfy your curiosity. But it almost certainly...
by Sean O'Leary | May 16, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
“The worry is that, along the way, we are going to waste huge amounts of money on the wrong use cases for hydrogen and the wrong infrastructure in the wrong places. Worse than wasting money, we will also be wasting time – and that is the one thing we don’t...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law House Bill 1059, an amendment to the state’s Tax Reform Code that, among other things, establishes subsidies for the development of a natural gas-based blue hydrogen and carbon capture hub. The bill...
by Ben Hunkler | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Fossil fuel companies are misleading the public about carbon capture technology, according to internal documents unearthed as part of an ongoing federal investigation into fossil fuel company misinformation. Private conversations between top employees of major...
