by Ben Hunkler | May 10, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
For generations, Appalachia has powered the nation’s industrial growth with our region’s bountiful reserves of coal, gas, and oil. Today, our communities are suffering the effects of that legacy of extraction—air and water pollution, rampant greenhouse gas emissions,...
by Ted Boettner | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
Earlier this month, we provided an explainer of the $4.7 billion federal orphaned well program that was included in the federal infrastructure legislation (the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021) and what that meant for states in the Ohio River Valley. To...
by Ben Hunkler | Feb 14, 2022 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
The newly announced initiative to develop a carbon capture and hydrogen hub in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia is a gamble in the guise of opportunity. The project, announced last week by a partnership of major oil and gas companies, would deploy costly,...
by Eric Dixon | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
In November 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which made historic investments in the reclamation of land and water damaged by the coal industry before 1977. We have found that while the bill will only address about half of the...
by Eric de Place and Molly Kiick | Nov 30, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
Beaver County, Pennsylvania is a real-time case-study in the local economic impacts of petrochemical development. It is home to the construction site of a Shell petrochemical facility estimated to cost $6 billion. First announced in 2012, the project is nearing...
by Eric de Place | Nov 29, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
Bitcoin is on the verge of going mainstream, with some companies — and even countries — recognizing the cryptocurrency as legal tender. The market cap of Bitcoin now surpasses both Facebook and Tesla, and it also recently became the 13th largest currency...
by Ben Hunkler | Nov 23, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity
Four years ago, petrochemical industry boosters predicted a new wave of industry would roll across the natural gas-producing region of Appalachia, spurring billions of dollars in capital investments and a veritable economic renaissance in a place that sorely needed...
by Ted Boettner | Oct 13, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
In partnership with ReImagine Appalachia and Union of Concerned Scientists, the Ohio River Valley Institute is releasing a new report titled: Repairing the Damage: Cleaning up Hazardous Coal Ash Can Create Jobs and Improve the Environment. This report is the fourth in...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 7, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click here to view and download the report With a price tag of $100 billion/year, widespread adoption of CCUS in our electric system would spark outrage if its cost showed up in our monthly bills. But members of Congress, including some climate hawks, are coalescing...
by Ted Boettner | Sep 29, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click here to view and download the full report. For much of its history, the Appalachian region has lagged the rest of the nation in measures of economic prosperity, health, education, and infrastructure. The region, especially central Appalachia, has been rich in...
