by Strategen Consulting, Inc. | Feb 22, 2024 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download PA CPRG Funding Recommendations Memo Across the United States, progress is accelerating toward economy-wide decarbonization. The establishment of federal emissions reduction targets, coupled with the passage of major pieces of...
by Nick Messenger, Kathy Hipple, and Anne Keller | Jan 25, 2024 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports
Download report Download summary & digital toolkit In November 2022, over ten years after Shell’s first public announcement of site selection for the project, and after five years of construction, Shell Chemical Appalachia Polymers opened its ethane cracker...
by Mark Partridge and Nick Messenger | Sep 20, 2023 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary A new economic development model centering high-multiplier investments in energy efficiency, weatherization, distributed generation, and education could help struggling Appalachian communities spark job, population, and income...
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 Claire Kovach, Stephen Herzenberg, Amanda Woodrum, and Ted Boettner | Jul 25, 2023 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Hard-working Americans are the engine of our economy. We want to do well for ourselves and our families, but too many of us who want to work – especially in Appalachian communities that have been left behind – are not able to find a job. And...
by Staff | Jul 6, 2023 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download reportDownload summaryDownload digital toolkit As of this writing, whether Pennsylvania remains the 12th state in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will be resolved by the Pennsylvania courts. If Pennsylvania remains in RGGI following...
by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Jun 20, 2023 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports
Download report Download summary Download toolkit Beaver County, Pennsylvania is a real-time case study in the local economic impacts of petrochemical development. That’s because the county is home to Shell’s massive, $6 billion ethane cracker, which officially...
by Jacqueline Ebner, Ph.D., Kathy Hipple, Nick Messenger, and Irina Spector, MBA | Apr 17, 2023 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary Download digital toolkit For more than a century, steel has played an important role in the economy and culture of the Ohio River Valley. But the traditional method of making steel, known as BF-BOF (blast furnace-blast oxygen...
by Eric Dixon and Rebecca Shelton | Feb 20, 2023 | Reports
Download report In a new report from the Ohio River Valley Institute and Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, we estimate it will cost $450 to 950 million to rebuild the approximately 9,000 homes damaged by the flood that swept through southeastern Kentucky in...
by Ted Boettner and Kathy Hipple | Jan 12, 2023 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Reports
Download report Earlier this year, we published Diversified Energy: A Business Model Built to Fail Appalachia, which questioned the company’s ability to pay for decommissioning its inventory of over 60,000 wells in Appalachia. Since that time, Diversified...
