Senators Split Over Need For New Authority To Oversee Hydrogen Pipelines

July 19, 2022
Senators are at odds over how to regulate the growing network of pipelines that will be needed to transport low-carbon hydrogen and are clashing over whether Congress should intervene to clarify whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) or the Surface Transportation Board (STB) has the authority to best support industry development. At a July 19 Senate energy committee hearing, Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) argued there is “uncertainty today around which federal laws apply to interstate hydrogen infrastructure and also...


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