"Tax-Credit Rules Leave Key ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Issues Unanswered"

"Environmental watchdogs worry the Biden administration’s proposed rules for hydrogen tax credits may allow fossil gas and biogas to pollute at taxpayer expense."

"The Biden administration’s newly proposed hydrogen tax-credit rules aim to enforce strict carbon emissions limits on companies making hydrogen from carbon-free electricity — so-called ​“green hydrogen.”

But its plans for policing the emissions from hydrogen made from fossil gas — in particular, so-called ​“blue hydrogen” — aren’t as clear. That has environmental watchdogs worried.

“We also need to be paying close attention to the blue hydrogen side of the equation,” said Morgan Rote, director of U.S. climate policy at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.

“Blue hydrogen” is the term for hydrogen that’s made from fossil gas, but in a way that prevents the resulting carbon emissions from entering the a

Jeff St. John reports for the Guardian January 12, 2024.

Source: Canary Media, 01/16/2024