However, little has been made public about ARCHES' top projects, their locations, or their potential health impacts. To fully participate in the hub, partners - including utilities like PG&E, companies like Amazon, and fossil fuel giants like Chevron - had to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Environmental advocates call it an 'iron wall' and say that, as projects pop up in marginalized or already-polluted communities around the state, they're playing 'Whac-A-Mole' trying to keep up.
ARCHES also has rejected rules the federal government has proposed for the tax credit, a position directly contrary to that of experts who say the rules would guarantee that this huge investment leads to a sustainable hydrogen economy. Clean hydrogen could be the angel of decarbonizing the energy sector, but Earthjustice analyst Sasan Saadat said poorly defined hydrogen could be the devil.
"There's reason to trust California," said Dan Kammen, an energy professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "But only if California continues to follow the rules that California created."
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