by Kathy Hipple, Irina Spector, and Jacqueline Ebner | Jul 17, 2024 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports
Download report Plastics are a problem. The world is awash in plastic. It is a major contributor of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and poses risks to workers and communities, especially environmental justice communities. Micro- and nanoplastics are everywhere, and we...
by Gregory Cumpton and Ted Boettner | Feb 28, 2024 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Reports
Download report Download toolkit Download state fact sheets Current efforts to target methane emissions in the oil and gas industry for reduction stem from two underlying facts: excess atmospheric methane plays several particularly egregious roles in the...
by Nick Messenger | Feb 27, 2024 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary & toolkit In 1936, Louisiana launched what is known as the Industrial Tax Exemption Program (ITEP), aimed to compete with other states like Mississippi who had begun to massively subsidize corporate manufacturing with tax...
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...
