by Staff | Oct 7, 2024 | Natural Gas, Reports
Download polling memo Download slide deck Nine in ten Pennsylvania voters support stricter regulations on the fracking industry, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Upswing Research for the Ohio River Valley Institute. Pennsylvania voters broadly...
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 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 Joanne Kilgour | Mar 17, 2024 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, former Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan decried President Biden’s recent decision to pause liquified natural gas (LNG) export authorizations. Ryan, tugging on heartstrings, claimed that LNG exports and other new avenues for...
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 Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Tucked amid the Biden administration’s cornucopia of climate initiatives was a poison pill: the greenlighting of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Appalachia. When the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 essentially bulldozed the permitting review...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 22, 2023 | Natural Gas, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary Download toolkit By the first quarter of 2020, EQT Corporation, the nation’s largest domestic producer of natural gas, was supplying more than 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. Just a decade earlier, EQT’s output...
by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Aug 17, 2023 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Natural Gas, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage
If it were its own country, Appalachia would be the third-largest producer of natural gas in the world, behind only Russia and the rest of the United States. And, as new measurements reveal, Appalachia is likely the source of more system-wide fossil fuel...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 7, 2023 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
I’ve gotten better at resisting the urge to respond to every inaccurate claim, every attempt to mislead, and every rhetorical flourish that issues forth from the region’s oil and gas industry executives who, when they’re not claiming that natural gas is “clean...
