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...
by Ted Boettner | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
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 Lou Martin | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In this election, 79 percent of the voters list the economy as a very important issue, more than any of other issue, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Growing up in the Ohio Valley, whenever the discussion turned to bringing jobs to the area, the steel...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia should try it instead of throwing up barriers In 2009, Texas was the nation’s biggest consumer of coal for the generation of electricity. By 2019 Texas had cut its consumption of coal by a third and replaced it with . . . If you...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Workers in West Virginia should be making $117,000 a year on average — and they would be too, if only we had pursued the same economic strategies we had in the 1970s. Instead, we’ve taken power away from workers, lowered taxes on the wealthy, and designed...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The fate of Appalachia’s natural gas and petrochemical boom depends on despotic regimes, foreign companies we’ve never heard of, and OPEC In a recent speech to an oil and gas conference, CNX Resources CEO Nick DeIuliis joined many in his industry, wrapping themselves...
