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
Download summary Download toplines Download crosstabs 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...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Natural Gas, Reports
Click to view and download Download summary Download digital toolkit 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...
by Eric de Place | Jun 15, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
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 | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics, Research
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania, March 23, 2021 – New gas field developments in Appalachia are unlikely to be profitable as the US energy system undergoes rapid decarbonization, according to a new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute’s US Center (SEI) and the...
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 10, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
The Ohio River Valley Institute’s recent report on the nearly complete failure of the Appalachian natural gas boom to deliver on promises of jobs and prosperity in the region’s major gas-producing counties triggered a great deal of blowback from the industry and...
by Eric de Place | Mar 9, 2021 | Natural Gas, Reports
GROUNDBREAKING NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS FUTURE APPALACHIAN SHALE GAS DRILLING UNPROFITABLE AND PETROCHEMICAL BUILDOUT UNLIKELY Higher prices are needed to save Appalachian natural gas, but the industry faces pressure from decarbonization and uncertain petrochemical markets....
by Eric de Place | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
$3.8 billion is enough money to run the entire economy of a small country. But it’s just barely enough to cover the cost of Pennsylvania’s annual subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. Those subsidies are described in painstaking detail in an excellent new analysis by...
