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Republican bill cuts clean energy programs, critics say it imperils hydrogen hubs and private investment
Summary
Democrats warned the FY2026 Energy and Water bill eliminates funding for the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, sharply reduces energy efficiency and renewable programs, and withdraws bipartisan infrastructure law resources — moves members said will derail planned hydrogen hub projects and private investment.
Democratic members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development said the committee’s FY2026 bill eliminates funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and cuts energy efficiency and renewable programs, moves they said will undercut private investment in large-scale clean energy projects including regional hydrogen hubs. Representative Kaptur, the subcommittee’s ranking member, said the bill “revokes $5,100,000,000 of the bipartisan infrastructure law resources from the Department of Energy programs” and “eliminates funding for the office of clean energy…
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