Biden Officials Grapple With Defining ‘Clean’ Hydrogen Amid GHG Debate

Top Biden administration officials are grappling with how to define what constitutes “clean” hydrogen that can help achieve their sweeping climate change emission targets, as environmentalists and some researchers are calling for federal support to be limited to only certain production processes that achieve a low-carbon profile for the fuel. “Now there has been a lot of discussion lately about whether certain hydrogen production pathways are actually considered clean,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Aug. 31 in opening remarks at...