Over 50 community and environmental groups representing Appalachia have called on the United States Department of Energy to suspend the planned Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub, known as ARCH2, over what the groups say has been a lack of transparency and adequate community engagement regarding the project. The groups called on the DOE to disclose more information they said would be needed for the public to understand what ARCH2 would mean for the region, including:
a current list of proposed projects within the enterprise spanning parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.