Jane Patton of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) reveals what’s behind industry and government plans to create massive “hydrogen hubs.”

This 2023 study concludes that hydrogen has a global warming potential almost 12 times as strong as CO2 and, therefore, it will be crucial to limit hydrogen leakage wherever it is used.

This overview concludes that hydrogen can only play a minor role in solving the climate crisis, mainly because it takes so much energy to produce hydrogen.

This short article summarizes the dangers of blending hydrogen into natural gas (methane) pipelines.

This Full Report describes the dangers of blending hydrogen into natural gas (methane) pipelines.

Bill Caram discusses the new report from the Pipeline Safety Trust, which questions the safety of blending hydrogen into natural gas pipelines.

Hydrogen pipeline safety standards are “out of date,” according to the award-winning engineer whose work provided the technical basis of ASME B 31.12, the official safety standard for hydrogen pipelines.

At time 10:23 in this video, Mark Stephens, who developed the safety formula in the U.S. hydrogen pipeline safety standard, says that formula is “out of date.”

In this “summary for policy makers,” the Pipeline Safety Trust shows that hydrogen pipelines are more dangerous than natural gas pipelines. (Get the full report here.)

“Blue hydrogen” is hydrogen made by steam reforming methane (aka natural gas), then capturing some of the CO2 emissions from that process and burying the captured CO2 in the ground. Here Robert Howarth and Mark Z. Jacobson show that “Blue hydrogen” releases more CO2 into the atmosphere than burning natural gas or coal. Blue hydrogen makes the climate emergency worse, not better.

This short report from Food & Water Watch makes the case that the federal government’s plan to build six “hydrogen hubs” across the U.S. will make the climate emergency worse and waste billions of dollars.

A list of articles (with commentary, and links to original documents) about the pros and cons of ”green hydrogen,” which is hydrogen extracted from water using renewable energy.

This fact sheet from Food & Water Watch discusses the pros and cons of hydrogen.

This technical article describes why Big Oil is promoting hydrogen, and what alternatives they could pursue.

This report from Friends of the Earth shows how Big Oil plans to capture huge public subsidies to build hydrogen production facilities that don’t help the climate, or that actually make the climate emergency worse.

This data-rich letter puts EPA on notice that environmental justice groups are dissatisfied with proposed emission standards for power plants, including the blending of hydrogen into traditional power plant fuel.

Congress has enacted a huge subsidy to stimulate the build-out of “green” hydrogen (extracting hydrogen from water using solar and wind energy). How those subsidies are structured could determine whether hydrogen lowers or raises the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The California Environmental Justice Alliance developed these principles during 10 workshops devoted to hydrogen, attended by community groups and their allied experts.

Recommendations include (among many others) do not allow hydrogen to be blended into traditional fuels at power plants.

This report is subtitled, “Distinguishing oil and gas industry spin from zero-emissions solutions.”

Fourteen organizations announce their reasons for opposing two hydrogen hubs proposed for Pennsylvania by the federal Department of Energy.

This well-documented 46-page report describes compelling problems with carbon capture and storage (CCS), chemical recycling, fracking, and hydrogen production and use. Published by No False Solutions PA, a Pennsylvania coalition.

This Philadelphia Inquirer news story names the individuals and institutions that will profit from the proposed MACH2 hydrogen hub in Pennsylvania. Big federal handouts will grease the skids for the massive project to begin as early as 2024, evidently without an environmental impact statement.

Pennsylvania Sierra Club says proposed hydrogen hubs pose “a quandry” because some hydrogen processes are cleaner than others. This short article links to some additional sources of information.