by Kathy Hipple and Anne Keller | May 25, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
As a recent article in Forbes noted, the ‘dam has broken’ in West Virginia for solar power. While solar energy comprises less than 0.2 percent of electricity production in the state today, the market for solar energy is marching forward. Despite not having a renewable...
by Sean O'Leary | May 18, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
At ORVI, we’ve documented the inability of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries to serve as engines for job growth and prosperity in Appalachia. Although these findings may be greeted with doubt, disbelief, and sometimes anger, we find that, once the numbers...
by Ted Boettner | May 7, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Several weeks ago, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) released their plan for “Preserving Coal Country” amid national policy efforts to address climate change and regrow the economy with large-scale infrastructure investments. The UMWA plan listed several...
by Ted Boettner | Apr 14, 2021 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary After more than a century of oil and gas drilling, unplugged or improperly plugged abandoned oil and gas wells are causing extensive environmental damage and imposing health and safety risks because they are leaching pollutants...
by Eric Dixon | Apr 14, 2021 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Repairing the Damage, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download report Download summary For more than 200 years, the coal industry extracted billions of tons of coal in the US, damaging thousands of acres of land and water and leaving much of it unreclaimed. In this report, I demonstrate why it is critical to...
by Sean O'Leary | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In 10 years, unless West Virginia leapfrogs from its coal-dominated energy system to one driven by clean renewable resources, it will cease to be an energy state West Virginia’s status as an energy state — one that produces more energy than it consumes – will almost...
by Ted Boettner | Feb 23, 2021 | Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The West Virginia Legislature got underway on Wednesday, February 10th, and so far the legislative session has been marked by a lack of accountability and transparency, advancing legislation aimed at crippling public education, reducing workers’ rights, and...
by Joanne Kilgour | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In recent research with colleagues Michal Roth (Tel Aviv University), Paulina Jaramillo, and Peter Adams (Carnegie Mellon University) I explored how the energy system in the U.S. would respond to carbon tax policies. We explored near term carbon tax policies up until...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Reduced emissions, lower utility bills, and economic development for small-town Pennsylvania ORVI testimony before the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (On December 11, 2020, ORVI senior researcher, Sean O’Leary, testified before the Pennsylvania...
by Sean O'Leary | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
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...
