by Sean O'Leary | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity, Strategic Communications
Don’t look now, but it’s late-June – season of the summer solstice and the now annual announcement by PTTGC that, despite previous assurances, it must yet again delay a final investment decision on the proposed ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio. Recall that in...
by Eric de Place | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
To see the future of the Ohio River you can look to a place that is almost its antipode: the tropical coastal waters of Sri Lanka. It’s there, some 9,000 miles away as the crow flies, that residents have recently discovered the scourge of pollution from the tiny resin...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
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 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
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 Ted Boettner | May 7, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
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 Sean O'Leary | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
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...
