by Sean O'Leary | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The West Virginia Public Service Commission’s ruling on the case regarding the Mitchell power plant will, if it is implemented, result in fewer jobs and less prosperity for Marshall County and surrounding counties, it will needlessly raise West Virginians’...
by Ted Boettner | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
This blog post was originally published by the Union of Concerned Scientists at https://blog.ucsusa.org/guest-commentary/appalachia-poised-to-be-part-of-shift-to-clean-energy/ For over 150 years, the Appalachian region has provided the cheap energy that has...
by Ben Hunkler | Jul 21, 2021 | Shared Prosperity, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
There are many parallels between economically struggling communities in Appalachia and Centralia, Washington, a chronically depressed coal town that lost its coal mine and is now losing its coal-fired power plant. But in Centralia, the economy, jobs and population are...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary Download digital toolkit If there are some industries in which immense amounts of investment can fail to produce significant increases in jobs and prosperity, might there be other industries in which comparatively small investments can...
by Eric Dixon | Jul 13, 2021 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Blog Posts, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
On Friday, US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released a new version of his proposed energy infrastructure package. The previous version of his proposal included $11.3 billion in federal funds to clean up damage from Abandoned Mine Lands (AMLs) across the country. The new...
by Ben Hunkler | Jun 30, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The Ohio River Valley Institute’s newest report examines how the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) could support economic development and job creation in Pennsylvania, particularly in coal communities most impacted by energy market transition from coal to...
by Joe Cullen | Jun 30, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Click here to view and download the report. Executive Summary On November 7, 2020, Governor Wolf’s proposed CO2 Budget Trading Program Regulation was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, setting in motion a full comment and rulemaking process for the Commonwealth’s...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In early April, we released a report outlining the benefits of plugging and cleaning up orphan and abandoned oil and gas wells in Appalachia. Since that time, there have been several bills introduced in Congress to address the issue. These include the Orphan Well...
by Eric Dixon | Jun 7, 2021 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Blog Posts, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
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 Sean O'Leary | May 26, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
There was a time when the sight of rows of office workers hammering away at their Friden adding machines would have sent me into paroxysms of delight because I, the Victor Comptometer salesman, had a new and better “programmable calculator” that could kick the...
