Economy Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Oct 8

Economy

Letting the Sunlight in: When Appalachian Solar Dreams Become Realities

The promise of solar energy for small, rural communities, and particularly those recovering from the decline of the coal industry, is twofold: job creation, and revenue. Money is flowing into solar energy— the Appalachian Regional Commission just funded a major regional solar financing program, and a massive solar farm may be coming to Martin County, […]

By Katie Myers

Oct 8

Economy

Letting the Sunlight in: When Appalachian Solar Dreams Become Realities

By Katie Myers

Sep 18

Economy

Coal Keeps The Lights On, For Now, At West Virginia’s Mountaineer Plant

The first thing that strikes you about the Mountaineer power plant is its sheer size. Its stacks rise more than 1,000 feet over the Ohio River floodplain, almost as tall as the Empire State Building. Its massive cooling tower can hold 8.5 million gallons of water. A 20-story building houses its 1,330-megawatt generator. It produces […]

By Curtis Tate

Sep 18

Economy

Coal Keeps The Lights On, For Now, At West Virginia’s Mountaineer Plant

Curtis Tate

Aug 27

Economy

Recovery Through Employment: ARC Funding Makes Ohio Valley Programs Possible

Jessica Stapleton was in the thralls of active addiction when she first heard of the Recovery to Work program. She had lost the trust of her family and custody of her six children. She credits the program with not only changing her life, but saving it as well. “It pretty much saved my life. I […]

By Kaitlin Thorne

Aug 27

Economy

Recovery Through Employment: ARC Funding Makes Ohio Valley Programs Possible

Kaitlin Thorne

Aug 23

Economy

Virginia Regulators Reject Plan to Extend Life of 2 West Virginia Coal Plants

The Virginia Corporation Commission on Monday rejected Appalachian Power’s plan to keep the John Amos and Mountaineer power plants in West Virginia operating through 2040. The commission denied the company permission to make wastewater treatment upgrades at the plants and pass the cost on to electric power customers in the state. Not making those upgrades […]

By Curtis Tate

Aug 23

Economy

Virginia Regulators Reject Plan to Extend Life of 2 West Virginia Coal Plants

Curtis Tate

Jul 30

Economy

Five Months Later, Eastern Kentuckians Are Still Coping with Fallout of Spring Flooding

Early on a rainy March morning in Jackson, Kentucky, Yolanda Goff found herself abandoning her trailer on Quicksand Road forever. She didn’t think the floodwater would crest so high, but when she woke that morning, it was in the yard and rising fast. She had a few minutes to salvage everything she could, get her […]

By Katie Myers and Corinne Boyer

Jul 30

Economy

Five Months Later, Eastern Kentuckians Are Still Coping with Fallout of Spring Flooding

Katie Myers and Corinne Boyer

Jul 22

Economy

Families receive sorely needed child tax credit payments

The Robsons, like the vast majority of U.S. households with children, began receiving the Child Tax Credit last week – the latest part of the American Rescue Plan to be put into action. Jaclyn Robson says it was sorely needed. “I don’t want to have to work 60 hours a week just to make a […]

By Kaitlin Thorne

Jul 22

Economy

Families receive sorely needed child tax credit payments

Kaitlin Thorne

Jul 16

Economy

Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028

Kentucky utility regulators reached a decision this week that could mean a northern West Virginia power plant will have to close years sooner than planned. The Kentucky Public Service Commission on Thursday rejected Kentucky Power’s request to perform environmental compliance work on the Mitchell Plant near Moundsville, West Virginia. Under federal rules, the coal-burning plant […]

By Curtis Tate

Jul 16

Economy

Kentucky Regulators: West Virginia Coal Plant Should Close in 2028

Curtis Tate

Jul 2

Economy

Nearly Half A Million In Ohio Valley Lose Jobless Benefits

An analysis by the Ohio Valley ReSource showed that roughly 488,000 people in Ohio and West Virginia have lost supplemental unemployment payments after Republican governors there scrapped the federal unemployment benefit programs put in place during the pandemic. Another 65,000 people in Kentucky eligible for the payments await a decision by the Democratic governor there […]

By Suhail Bhat

Jul 2

Economy

Nearly Half A Million In Ohio Valley Lose Jobless Benefits

Suhail Bhat

Jun 30

Economy

Kentucky’s AG Cameron on West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It

Environmental and consumer groups have pushed for the early closure of a 50-year-old coal-fired power plant in West Virginia that serves electricity customers in both West Virginia and Kentucky. They have an unlikely ally: Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron. In a filing last week with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, Cameron recommended the commission […]

By Curtis Tate

Jun 30

Economy

Kentucky’s AG Cameron on West Virginia Coal Plant: Close It

Curtis Tate

Jun 9

Economy

West Virginia Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate.

They’ve towered over the region’s communities for decades. They generated the electricity for homes around the Ohio Valley. They burned coal, a fossil fuel Appalachia has in abundance. But three West Virginia coal-fired power plants owned by Ohio-based American Electric Power may be on borrowed time. The Mitchell Plant in Moundsville, the Mountaineer Plant in […]

By Curtis Tate

Jun 9

Economy

West Virginia Coal Plants Need Upgrades. Three States Will Decide Their Fate.

Curtis Tate