UNCONVINCED LAWMAKERS REJECT GOVERNOR'S HYDROGEN HIGHWAY BUDGET

A Senate budget subcommittee this week rejected proposed air board funding to implement the second year of the governor's Hydrogen Highway project, arguing that the technology is too far away from mainstream use to justify investing millions more in Fiscal Year 2006-07. While the rejection is seen by some as a blow to the administration's highly publicized efforts to speed the advancement of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, similar action by lawmakers last year was tempered by the reinstatement of at least...