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Senate hearing: industry, researchers and ports urge targeted state support to keep California’s hydrogen transition on track
Summary
Industry, transit and public‑health witnesses told a California Senate select committee that hydrogen is already deployed in buses, trucks and rail but that the loss of ARCHES federal funding, volatile fuel prices and permitting delays threaten near‑term projects; witnesses urged focused state funding, demand aggregation and permitting fixes.
Senator Bob Archuleta convened a select committee hearing on hydrogen energy, where industry leaders, researchers, labor and public agencies described operational deployments and warned that federal funding disruptions and persistent infrastructure gaps risk slowing the transition.
The committee heard that hydrogen fuel‑cell buses, trucks and a prototype hydrogen freight locomotive are operating in California and that private and public actors are investing to scale the technology. "Hydrogen is not an either‑or proposition" for decarbonization, Katrina Fritz, president and CEO of the California Hydrogen Business Council, told the panel, adding it "complements electrification" in hard‑to‑electrify sectors.
Researchers and air‑quality officials urged surgical deployment in the most polluting corridors. Lin Jing, a research affiliate at UC Berkeley, said modeling…
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