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 Nick Messenger | May 5, 2023 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
A lot has happened since ORVI originally published our post on the disastrous toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts are still underway by the railroad operator, Norfolk Southern, but they have raised new questions about the safe transport of...
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 Ted Boettner | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
During the third week in March, I had the opportunity to travel to southeastern Louisiana to take part in several events sponsored by True Transition, a new group working to build a brighter future for oil and gas workers and communities across the country. For over a...
by Eric Dixon | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Here’s a name you don’t often read in Appalachian history books: Bill Worthington. Bill was a Black coal miner from Harlan County, Kentucky, and a member of the United Mine Workers of America. Bill played a pivotal role in historic labor disputes in Harlan...
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,...
