by Sean O'Leary | Dec 22, 2023 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
The Inflation Reduction Act relies far more heavily on carrots than it does on sticks to induce industries to mitigate their carbon emissions. Tax credits for technologies such as carbon capture and sequestration actually exceed the costs companies would incur to...
by Staff | Dec 4, 2023 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Download testimony Financial and regulatory support for the gas-based ARCH2 Appalachian Hydrogen Hub risks reduced economic growth, fewer jobs, and higher utility bills, taxes, and prices for Pennsylvanians, according to testimony delivered today at the...
by Staff | Oct 13, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
The Ohio River Valley Institute published the following statement in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement of up to $925 million in federal funding for the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2). ARCH2 Blue Hydrogen Hub Threatens...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 9, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
via GIPHY OK, in fairness to everyone who has ever built a hamster wheel to generate electricity, it probably wasn’t about the electricity. It may have been about the merit badge, or your science grade, or just to satisfy your curiosity. But it almost certainly...
by Sean O'Leary | May 16, 2023 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
“The worry is that, along the way, we are going to waste huge amounts of money on the wrong use cases for hydrogen and the wrong infrastructure in the wrong places. Worse than wasting money, we will also be wasting time – and that is the one thing we don’t...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law House Bill 1059, an amendment to the state’s Tax Reform Code that, among other things, establishes subsidies for the development of a natural gas-based blue hydrogen and carbon capture hub. The bill...
by Ben Hunkler | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Fossil fuel companies are misleading the public about carbon capture technology, according to internal documents unearthed as part of an ongoing federal investigation into fossil fuel company misinformation. Private conversations between top employees of major...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 27, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
The recently signed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers coal and gas-fired power plants as well as factories and other carbon-emitting facilities a tax credit that will pay them $85 for every metric ton of carbon they capture and sequester underground. The...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 22, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Finally, a reporter has asked a question that should have been asked from the beginning about the proposed Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Hub for Western Pennsylvania – What will it cost? Unfortunately, none of the people Anya Litvak interviewed could provide an answer....
by Sean O'Leary | Mar 18, 2022 | Blog Posts, Hydrogen & Carbon Capture
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) torpedoed the Build Back Better bill because, he said, it is too costly. But the fleet of hydrogen hub projects he is now promoting for locations around the nation, one of them in the Ohio River Valley, may cost nearly as much, they will...
