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...
by Ted Boettner | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Climate change is the single biggest challenge of the 21st century. The global community has just ten years to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half and less than thirty years to build a sustainable, carbon neutral economy that can protect the planet and public health...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
CNX Resources Corporation CEO, Nick DeIuliis, is a veritable rock star proponent of what he calls “the natural gas economy”. Videos of his speeches are widely shared within the Appalachian natural gas and petrochemical communities, he is frequently sought out for...