by Eric Dixon | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
This post is the second in a four-part series based on a recent ORVI report on abandoned mine land (AML) issues. Figures cited below can be found in the accompanying report. Abandoned coal mines have damaged thousands of acres of land, polluted hundreds of miles of...
by Eric de Place | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, 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 Eric Dixon | Mar 18, 2021 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
This afternoon, Congress will hold a hearing on a slew of bills that seek to clean up land and water damaged by the coal industry before it was regulated in 1977. The hearing rightly highlights the urgency of reauthorizing fees on coal production that fund cleanup,...
by Sean O'Leary | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity, Strategic Communications
NEW REPORT: NATURAL GAS COUNTIES’ ECONOMIES SUFFERED AS PRODUCTION BOOMED Since the start of the fracking boom, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia’s biggest gas-producing counties have seen declines in their share of jobs, income, and population February 10,...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
JOBS, SAVINGS, AND HEALTHIER FAMILIES The funny thing about opponents of Pennsylvania’s proposed membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is that the terrible things they say will happen if Pennsylvania joins RGGI are exactly the things that...
by Ted Boettner | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
If policymakers at the state and federal level want to build a strong economy with good paying jobs in the Ohio River Valley region it will require raising wages, improving job quality standards, and increasing disposable income of workers. That’s because most...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog Posts, Fair Democracy, Research
The 2020 election has taken place against the backdrop of a pandemic, a racial justice movement, and record-setting political spending–projected to total nearly $14 billion, a figure greater than the GDP of Armenia. For a culture that is used to immediate...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Fair Democracy, Newsletter, Research
A Message from Our Executive Director Back at my desk in Pennsylvania, I have the strong sensation of being in the eye of a storm; the past few months of frenzied political campaigning and voter education have crescendoed, Election Day has arrived, and the gaze of...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Newsletter, Research, Shared Prosperity
Tim Puko of the Wall Street Journal recently reported that President Trump is weighing an executive order to study the economic impacts of fracking. The order, if issued less than a week before election day, will be a transparent attempt to contrast the president’s...
