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Section 45V of the Inflation Reduction Act creates a pathway to profitability for green hydrogen. But that hydrogen could be green in name only without smart Treasury Department guidance.

Big Coal and climate denial helped pave its race to the bottom.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Andy McDonald recalls a decade-old Kentucky legislative hearing on an energy diversification bill with the same sense of frustration that he felt back then, when he testified before a

Coal industry influence and climate change denial paved the state’s race to the clean energy bottom. As one lawmaker put it: “God created coal for people.”

Figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that Kentucky is dead last among states for wind and solar production in the United States.