Nick Joins the “Inside the ICE House” Podcast

On January 10, 2022, Nick was featured on the “Inside the ICE House” podcast.

From guitar heroes to natural gas and geopolitics, Nick covers a lot of ground! Nick discusses his 30-year career in the energy industry, and is described as “an evangelist of the importance of American energy markets and the pivotal role gas plays in maintaining and providing mobility in our communities.” Nick goes on to share how CNX Resources is implementing an ESG strategy that focuses on the power of staying local, while driving tangible and impactful results for customers and shareholders.

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Lending a Helping Hand While Developing a Career Path

This past Tuesday, a group of students from the CNX Foundation Mentorship Academy met in the kitchen at First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh to help feed the homeless. The students took part in what is a weekly event run by the nonprofit Outreached Arms. Meals are provided each Tuesday evening at the downtown house of worship.

The CNX Foundation provided the food, and the students helped feed over 80 people on a cold night. The individuals showing up for the meal consisted of both homeless living in shelters as well as those who spend Pittsburgh’s tough winters on the streets.

The students assisted in setting up the kitchen and arranging the eating/seating area to have the feel of a restaurant before guests arrived. Salads, drinks, the main meal, and desserts were provided.

There was no formal career development discussion or exercises at this event. Instead, the purpose was to focus on the here and now, remind us there are neighbors in our community who have nothing, and to take some time out of our daily routines to help care for others.

At CNX, we like to say our community and environmental-social-governance (ESG) efforts are designed to be tangible, impactful, and local. Tuesday evening with Outreached Arms helped reinforce what those words mean in our corner of the world.

Talk to young adults about what type of career they are looking for and you will often hear about wanting a profession where they’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. Outreached Arms opened eyes as to how making a big difference with a small investment of time can be achieved, no matter what career path is chosen.

Perspective informs.

Learn more about Outreached Arms at outreachedarms.org and follow them on Facebook at facebook.com/outreachedarms.

The Mentorship Academy is an initiative of CNX Foundation and part of CNX’s commitment to investing in its local community. Designed for high school students who do not plan to immediately attend a four-year college, the Academy is focused on providing urban and rural youth from economically disadvantaged regional Appalachian communities with greater opportunities—helping provide these young adults a bridge to family-sustaining careers. Following the mentorship program, students will have developed new relationships with peers and business leaders across western Pennsylvania, a new excitement for the region’s career opportunities and an understanding of how to pursue those careers.

Deiuliis: Stop Targeting the Natural Gas Industry

The following letter to the editor by Nick DeIuliis was published in the December 24 edition of the Citizens’ Voice.

I must respond to your editorial highlighting my recent speech on Pennsylvania and America’s natural gas industry to correct two fatal flaws.

First, you reported a gross inaccuracy regarding my speech. I was not ‘protesting’ our state’s impact fee/severance tax. I distinctly advocated for finding a sensible path to grow tax revenue, not diminish it. You not only missed my clear point but ascribed the opposite to me.

Second, your editorial applies inconsistent and twisted logic.

Arguing the natural gas industry is here because the gas is here, so $2 billion in impact fees (a.k.a. severance tax) is fine, or as you suggest too low, is logic that seems to only apply to the natural gas industry.

Power demand is here, yet wind and solar pay zero tax—and get subsidy (and want more and more subsidy). The students live here, but universities pay no property tax – and get massive direct and indirect subsidy (while failing graduates, parents, and taxpayers). News readers/consumers are here, but newspapers, including yours, pay zero sales tax—and get subsidy (not sure how the press these days protects the citizenry from government when government now funds the press).

Your editorial also references the tired nomenclature debate of severance tax versus impact fee. Whether called a fee or a tax, it’s a tax make no mistake about it. Put the lexicon gymnastics to rest.

Your editorial is illustrative of those looking to position the natural gas industry as a problem needing fixed to justify more bureaucracy and the tax dollars to pay for that bureaucracy. The reasoning you apply when making your case is conveniently shed when it comes to similar issues/industries.

In the words of Ayn Rand: check your premises!

Sincerely,

Nick Deiuliis, President & CEO
CNX Resources

Transforming Lives and Communities Through the Culinary Arts

The female class of the CNX Foundation Mentorship Academy met last week at the Empowerment, Awareness, and Training (EAT) Initiative, which is housed at the Pittsburgh Energy Innovation Center. Chef Claudy Pierre is the founder and head of the EAT Initiative. Chef invested his day with our students, discussing his life story and how he used the culinary arts to not only build a career, but also to turn his life around at a crucial point.

The EAT Initiative trains young adults in hospitality education, while simultaneously addressing food insecurity within underserved communities. If you want to see what the confluence of capitalism, work ethic, and community service looks like, spend a few minutes with Chef Claudy.

Our students learned the basics of knife safety and then went to work under the supervision of Chef, putting together an awesome lunch of tacos and salsa. The exercise brought home a key motivator for a career in the challenging culinary arts: seeing your hard work manifest into a final work product that is enjoyed by the customer. Few careers offer such a direct and timely connection between your effort and the tangible product.

The day with the EAT Initiative provided a massive benefit of creating an environment where the students not only worked as a team but had fun doing so. Holiday music was playing, students were focused but laughing, and you sensed the group wrapped the day tighter than when it started.

And oh, by the way, the massive Lower Hill District development plan (adjacent to the Penguins arena and the EAT Initiative) is going to offer a range of entrepreneurial opportunities in the culinary arts and hospitality fields. A few students were already thinking about learning the craft and establishing a business.

Chef Claudy delivered a Mentorship Academy trifecta. Opening students’ eyes to a potential career path: check. Inspiring students with a real, personal life story: check. Getting hands-on experience while having a good time: check.

This is the first month where we had to split the Academy themes and events due to logistics. But both December’s Academy site visits were exceptional events that are likely to impact more than a few career paths.

If you want to learn more about the amazing work of Chef Claudy and the EAT Initiative, visit eatinitiative.org, follow EAT on Facebook at facebook.com/theeatinitiative, and follow Chef Claudy on Twitter at @ClaudiusMaxamus.

Business Times: CNX CEO DeIuliis will put $1M in compensation to Mentorship Academy

“CNX Resources Corp. (NYSE: CNX) CEO Nick DeIuliis, who is building a regional philanthropic initiative with his Mentorship Academy and other efforts, will contribute $1 million of his 2022 compensation package to the Mentorship Academy,” reports the Pittsburgh Business Times’ Paul Gough.

“The Canonsburg-based natural gas producer’s Board of Directors made the announcement Thursday for the $1 million contribution in 2022 that will come out of his salary,” writes Gough. “DeIuliis, a Pittsburgh-region native, CNX and the CNX Foundation have been increasing philanthropic efforts toward the underserved rural and urban communities.”

“One of those initiatives has been the Mentorship Academy, which DeIuliis set up earlier this year to help build the careers and experience of western Pennsylvania youth who aren’t seeking a college degree but nevertheless want to set themselves on a career path,” continues Gough. “The first class is underway with plans for more in future years, and it has done site visits at the Shell petrochemical plant in Beaver County as well as union training facilities and the Community College of Beaver County.”

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