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...
by Kathy Hipple and Anne Keller | Dec 19, 2022 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports
Download report Download digital toolkit In November 2022, Shell officially began production at its long-anticipated ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, churning out lentil-sized resin pellets, known as nurdles, by the ton. When it reaches full...
by Strategen Consulting, Inc. | Dec 12, 2022 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary Download digital toolkit This report describes the development and analysis of a clean energy pathway for a 10-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania. Due to its abundance of fossil fuel resources, the region has a long...
by Joe Cullen | Aug 30, 2022 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report In June 2021, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) released a comprehensive Report on Coal-Fired Power Plant Retirements in the United States.1 The authors summarized the history of coal-fired plant retirements over the last decade,...
