by Sean O'Leary | Oct 13, 2022 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Natural gas enters your home through your furnace, your appliances, and even through the electricity you use, much of which comes from gas-fired power plants. And that’s a problem because, not only is gas bad for your physical health (more on that later), it’s...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 8, 2022 | Natural Gas, Reports
Download as PDF Key Takeaways: Policymakers’ pursuit of natural gas development is failing rural Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania policymakers of both parties are driving efforts to expand the state’s natural gas economy despite mounting evidence that the decade-long...
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 27, 2022 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Videos
Last December, the Ohio River Valley Institute published Stayin’ Alive: The Last Days of Stripper Wells in the Ohio Valley, a report chronicling the more than 177,000 low-producing, “stripper” oil and gas wells in Appalachia that could soon become abandoned and...
by Ben Hunkler | Jan 20, 2022 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
A recent story in the Columbus Dispatch reported that “two small eastern Ohio counties in the heart of Ohio’s natural gas country posted the biggest economic gains among the state’s counties in 2020” and that “other counties in Appalachia also were among...
by Ben Hunkler | Oct 15, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro charged Mariner East 2 Pipeline owner Energy Transfer with a total of 48 counts of environmental crimes last Tuesday in a landmark crackdown that reflects Pennsylvania voters’ overwhelming concern about the impacts of...
by Ben Hunkler | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics
More than one hundred environmental and community advocates described the devastating threats to public health and safety posed by petrochemical development in Appalachia and the Gulf South during a public hearing organized by the Department of Energy’s Office of...
by Eric de Place | Jul 29, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
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 | Natural Gas, 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 Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Natural Gas, Reports
Click to view and download Between 2008 and 2019, the twenty-two counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia that produce 90% of Appalachian natural gas badly trailed the nation in key measures of economic prosperity, including growth in jobs, personal...
