The West Virginia Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee approved a bill, Senate Bill 596, designed to help the state Department of Environmental Protection gain primary enforcement authority, or primacy, over underground carbon dioxide injection wells. Just two states currently have that authority.
The West Virginia House of Delegates Energy and Manufacturing Committee advanced legislation in House Bill 5045 designed to help the Department of Environmental Protection obtain primacy over underground carbon dioxide injection wells. The DEP s pursuit of primacy over the federal Class VI program has divided environmentalists who say the agency isn t prepared for the responsibility and carbon sequestration and blue hydrogen proponents who say it would ease permitting and foster economic growth
A state of West Virginia-led coalition has garnered federal support for a hydrogen production-based hub of energy and economic development touted by West Virginia political and industrial leaders and eyed
A West Virginia-led coalition has garnered federal support for a hydrogen production-based hub of energy and economic development touted by political and industrial leaders and eyed warily by many renewable
The federal government is expected this fall to announce awarding billions of dollars to support hubs of energy and economic development based on hydrogen production throughout the country.