by Eric de Place | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
“Creating a lot of new feedstock and products for the kind of products we’re going to need in that bright, environmentally-healthy future.” That’s how Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf described the Beaver County cracker project this July while defending his support for...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The following public letter concerning economic development, the petrochemical industry, and the need for more viable and sustainable strategies was sent to the governors of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania on June 15, 2020. See this background brief to learn...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
On June 15, 2020 a group of seven prominent economists and policy analysts from leading universities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and a former Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection, wrote a public letter to the governors of the three states...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 10, 2020 | Clean Energy, Petrochemicals & Plastics
My wife suggested that I title this, “Tales of The Shale Croissant” (… because, while it’s tasty to politicians, it’s mostly air and has almost no nutritional value). But, decorum requires otherwise, so “shale crescent” it is...