by Staff | Sep 26, 2022 | Videos
Continued reliance on locally sourced fossil fuels and carbon capture will be 12% more costly than a clean energy pathway that is focused on renewables and energy efficiency, and leverage imports from outside the 10-county region. A new clean energy pathway developed...
by Ben Hunkler | Sep 7, 2022 | Videos
West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are independently racing to secure federal funding for a blue hydrogen and carbon capture hub, an industry boondoggle that stands to prolong the failing fracking economy, further ravage frontline communities, and cost...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 8, 2022 | Videos
Pennsylvania policymakers of both parties are driving efforts to expand the state’s natural gas economy despite mounting evidence that the decade-long production boom has failed to stem or even reduce job and population losses in rural counties where the...
by Joanne Kilgour | Aug 4, 2022 | Videos
The Ohio River Valley Institute hosts a panel of legal experts for a discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision on West Virginia v. EPA. The decision stands to limit the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to lower greenhouse gas...
by Ted Boettner | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Videos
Last December, the Ohio River Valley Institute published Stayin’ Alive: The Last Days of Stripper Wells in the Ohio Valley, a report chronicling the more than 177,000 low-producing, “stripper” oil and gas wells in Appalachia that could soon become abandoned and...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 19, 2022 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Videos
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 earmarks $8 billion for a fleet of regional hydrogen hubs. There are already efforts in Harrisburg to designate one such hub in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and earlier this year, a group of natural gas, petrochemical,...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 15, 2022 | Videos
The oil and gas industry’s dream of a petrochemical cluster in Appalachia is collapsing. Years ago, oil and gas boosters claimed that fracking in Appalachia could generate a new petrochemical corridor in the Ohio River Valley, bringing more than 100,000 new...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 13, 2022 | Videos
A new report shows Diversified Energy, the nation’s largest owner of oil and gas wells, does not have enough funds to plug its entire catalog of wells. If Diversified or other companies that own low-producing wells in the region were to go out of business,...
by Ben Hunkler | Apr 1, 2022 | Videos
Hydrogen made from methane and carbon capture are wildly expensive technologies that would raise taxes and electricity rates and boost costs for Ohio River Valley families. These technologies wouldn’t create many permanent jobs and would prolong drilling...
by Ben Hunkler | Mar 8, 2022 | Videos
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 in the...
