Adams Fork is a Giant Waste of Energy
The projected gas consumption of TransGas’ ammonia and data center plans at the Adams Fork Energy site keeps ballooning.
Why “drill, baby, drill” won’t lower your utility bills
Increasing fracking and drilling operations could help energy companies, foreign consumers, tech companies, and shareholders—but not struggling Americans.
As costs climb and concerns mount, Appalachians are souring on data centers.
Communities are pushing back on power-hungry data center projects as electric bills continue to soar in the Ohio River Valley and nationwide.
Shell’s Q4 Financial Flop Underscores the False Promises of Petrochemical Investment
Shell’s “downturn in Monaca,” along with the company’s weakest quarterly profit in nearly 5 years, shows why petrochemicals are a bad bet.
2025 Ends With Another Blow to Appalachia’s Bygone Dreams of a Petrochemical Renaissance
Analysts predict another difficult year for Appalachian petrochemicals as a global overbuild and poor demand continue to drive down profits.
A Climate Advocate’s Guide to Calculating 45V and 45Q Tax Credits
The explosion of proposed “low-carbon” hydrogen and ammonia facilities is difficult to follow, even for dedicated climate advocates. The regulatory processes are complex, the finances are murky, and federal law keeps changing. This blog post is intended to help climate advocates opposing proposed hydrogen and ammonia facilities solve one information gap: How much money in […]
Congress is trying to loot America’s fund to clean up dangerous mines
In a “minibus” bill released by the House Appropriations Committee this week, legislators are attempting to loot $500 million from the bipartisan fund used to clean up the country’s land and water polluted by coal mining. The bill would transfer $500 million in previously appropriated cleanup funds to pay for other federal programs. Since 1977 […]
U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works: A History of Unsafe Conditions for Workers and Residents
Located along the Monongahela River, Clairton, Pennsylvania is a small city in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area with a population of around 6,000 people. Like much of the region, it has a rich history of industrial development, especially steelmaking, that began nearly at its conception. Opening in 1916, Clairton Coke Works is the largest coke production […]
2025 in Review
This year, ORVI and our partners have worked to adapt and respond to an increasingly chaotic, uncertain environment. We’ve quantified stemmed funding flows for federal projects like old oil and gas well decommissioning, traced critical junctures in the storied history—and possibility—of Mon Valley steelmaking, and tracked the surge of new fossil fuel industry offshoots: gas-fired […]
The Appalachianization of America’s Economy
AI-driven economic growth is exposing investment and GDP growth as misleading measures of prosperity and as misguided goals for local economic development strategies.