Should taxpayers gamble on blue hydrogen and carbon capture?
by Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, opinion contributor, The Hill, 09/20/22
Americans have an important decision to make: Do we fully embrace renewable energy, or do we divert scarce public funding to explore unproven technologies like blue hydrogen (hydrogen produced using …
Lawsuit alleges Diversified and EQT played hot potato with abandoned oil and gas well responsibility
By Anya Litvak, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 25, 2022.
“Abandoned oil and gas wells are having a moment — as global warming agitators, public safety hazards and targets of more than $1 billion in federal funding that seeks to correct …
This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats
By Bill McKibben, The Guardian, Feb. 25, 2022.
After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must respond with renewables
The pictures this morning of Russian tanks rolling across the …
Trump failed fossil fuel-reliant communities — Build Back Better invests in them
The Hill, Feb. 6, 2022. By Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, the author of “America’s Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet”, is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
As Democrats rework their strategy to introduce a Build Back Better …
Other Voices: Plugging abandoned wells boosts local economies
Max Harleman and Jeremy Weber (Univ. Pittsburgh, GSPIA) in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 18,2021.
Energy from oil and gas wells fueled American industrial growth and powered our country through two world wars and two energy crises. But today, many of …
Bipartisan Climate and Health Win: House Votes to Reinstate Oil & Gas Pollution Rules; Methane Emissions Resolution now Moves on to the White House
Statement of Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund, June 25,2021
(WASHINGTON) With bipartisan support, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to restore EPA rules limiting oil and gas methane pollution from new wells, processing plants and other facilities across the …
350.org responds to G7 announcement to end coal financing
350.org press release, May 21, 2021
Global – Today the world’s richest nations made a major step towards phasing out the dirtiest energy source. After some resistance from Japan, the G7 agreed to end their financial support for coal development …
Wolf Administration Awards $2.5 Million Contract to University of Pittsburgh to Research Health Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing in Pennsylvania
12/22/2020 Press Release, Gov. Wolf office.
Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration today announced that a $2.5 million contract is in place with the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to conduct research on the potential health effects …
Plastic Market Trends Are Bad News for Appalachia Cracker Plans
by , Dec 14, 2020, Ohio River Valley Institute.
What Peak Plastic Means for the Petchem Buildout
The Ohio Valley petrochemical buildout is in big trouble. You know it when you hear things like this:
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