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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

That’s because 45V awards credits based on the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions rate of produced hydrogen, and the statutory text defines that term via explicit reference to a definition set in the Clean Air Act. Weakening or delaying the shift to hourly matching.

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UCS Testimony on the Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit

Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS supports Treasury’s proposed temporal-matching requirement, with a phase-in of hourly matching by 2028 with no exemptions for legacy producers. This is the starting point from which all of Treasury’s implementation decisions must follow. Hourly matching.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

This level of forced retirements is far in excess of any prior EPA projections of plant shutdowns resulting from implementation of a Clean Air Act rulemaking. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule.

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ESA Policy News: December 19, 2022

ESA

Among other provisions, the legislation authorizes ecosystem restoration projects in the Upper Mississippi River and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and extends the authorization for pilot invasive species programs through 2028. Ed Case (D-HI) introduced the Coral Reef Sustainability Through Innovation Act ( S. 5199 & H.R.

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Policy News: May 6, 2021

ESA

National Science Board: The nomination period is open for the 2022-2028 class of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. Justice Dept. Justice Dept.

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