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 Wendy Patton | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Economic growth—the expansion and enrichment of business activity—is a narrow goal, easy to explain and understand: “More jobs for the community.” Economic development—expansion and enrichment of a community—is a broader goal: hard to explain, often fraught...
by Ben Hunkler | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Last week marked the close of the Clean Energy Ministerial’s inaugural Global Clean Energy Action Forum, a three-day conference on accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy. Billed as the “biggest energy event of the year,” the forum welcomed more than...
by Staff | Sep 26, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download Transitioning to clean energy means job growth, shared prosperity, and a safer, cleaner future for Western Pennsylvania. ORVI’s forthcoming decarbonization study, produced by Strategen Consulting, describes an energy transition pathway for the ten-county...
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,...
by Eric Dixon | Aug 18, 2022 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Blog Posts, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In March, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) hosted the Secretaries of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy on a tour of West Virginia’s coalfields. After visiting a proposed steel mill in Mason County, they visited a center that educates the...
by Eric Dixon | Aug 18, 2022 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Blog Posts, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
“After decades of delay and decline, America’s workers stand ready to rebuild our country.” That’s what AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as she joined President Joe Biden in the Rose Garden. At the signing ceremony, the...
by Wendy Patton | Aug 11, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
This is the first blog in a series of local economic development initiatives strengthening local economies and anchoring investment in Appalachian Communities of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. Economic loss and community decline is generally...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Last year, ReImagine Appalachia published an overview of Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) funding since 1965. We highlighted that non-highway funding for ARC has declined about $650 million annually since the late 1970s and early 1980s—when parts of the...
by Ben Hunkler | May 10, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
For generations, Appalachia has powered the nation’s industrial growth with our region’s bountiful reserves of coal, gas, and oil. Today, our communities are suffering the effects of that legacy of extraction—air and water pollution, rampant greenhouse gas emissions,...
