Food & Water Watch Radicals Hate Hydrogen as Much as Natural Gas
If fossil energy companies believe they can make their chosen business and industry more palatable to radical environmentalists, like Food & Water Watch (FWW), by jumping into hydrogen whole-hog, they need to think again. As we’ve been warning for months, the kook/left/fringe of the environmental movement has declared hydrogen as big of an enemy as natural gas (see Antis Begin to Turn Against Blending Hydrogen in NatGas Pipes). Even if a former natgas-fired power plant is converted to use 100% “green” hydrogen (absolutely no natural gas used to create the hydrogen), FWW still wants to burn the former gas-fired plant down. Apparently, the stain of fossil fuel sins is so deep nothing can redeem it–not even green hydrogen. These people are truly whacked.
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We’re confused. The State of Connecticut has been on a holy mission to eliminate natural gas-fired power plants in the state. In January of this year, Connecticut’s weak governor, Ned Lamont, gave in to radicals and helped torpedo a 650-megawatt, gas-fired plant slated to be built in eastern Connecticut (see 
Here’s a challenge to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pipeline certificate we don’t fully comprehend. In 2018 the Panda Hummel Marcellus-fired power plant in Snyder County, PA roared to life (see 
Last Friday, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) released a report of the results of mixing so-called “green” hydrogen with natural gas and using the fuel to generate electricity with reduced emissions from a retrofitted General Electric combustion turbine. The experiment was conducted at NYPA’s Brentwood Power Station on Long Island. NYPA experimented with fuel blends from 5% to 44% hydrogen. The study found CO2 mass emission rates were reduced by approximately 14% by mixing in a 35% blend of hydrogen.
MDN has highlighted Capstone Turbine Corporation, a California company that manufactures small electric-generating plants that run on natural gas, several times in the past (
Last December, Virginia’s newly-elected governor, Glenn Youngkin, said that as soon as he took office, he would use his executive power to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (see 
The so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas-fired power plants aimed at killing off those two sources of energy, held its latest tax auction on Friday. The result was pricing close to an all-time high, although the average price came down just a smidgen from the previous auction. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is trying to force PA to join the RGGI cabal of 11 states (most of them in the northeast), a move endorsed by the man who wants to replace him in November, PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro (see 
Perhaps it’s not polite to say so out loud, but anyone who says New England needs to end its reliance on natural gas used to produce electricity, with winter about to begin and unreliable renewables not capable of making up the shortfall, is a lunatic. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is holding a forum today in Burlington, Vermont, to discuss New England’s electric grid. ISO-New England, the region’s grid operator, will argue that natural gas supplies and grid reliability go hand-in-hand. A group of lunatics, including the Northeast Clean Energy Council, will argue that natgas should be cut off, forcing the region to adopt other sources of electricity. To which we say, why don’t they go first? The lunatics advocating to cut off natgas should unhook themselves from the electric grid in the dead of winter and see how that works out for them. Show us how it’s done.
Last week MDN told you that three radical environmental groups challenging an air permit issued by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the Renovo Energy Center, a Marcellus-fired power plant in Clinton County, PA, won a partial summary judgment lowering the amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) the new plant can emit (see 
The left finds the most devious ways to sink their claws into the fabric of American society and force it to conform to their twisted worldview–like using an obscure regulation promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In February 2022, the EPA announced a “minor” change to a regulation governing gas-fired turbines under the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), a framework in place since 2004. At first glance, the EPA’s announcement seems to be a minor update to a highly technical rule. However, a careful examination of the list of impacted units reveals that the change in enforcement framework could have significant impacts on both supply and demand dynamics in natural gas markets in the U.S. and beyond, affecting LNG exports, gas-fired power plants, and gas transmission and processing infrastructure (pipelines) in particular.
In a small but important victory against Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s effort to force the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax scheme, the PA Supreme Court on Wednesday opted not to overturn a Commonwealth Court decision that blocks the state from participating in RGGI until several lawsuits play out. The state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), under Wolf’s thumb, argued the state should be allowed to enforce the new tax in advance of a resolution to the lawsuits. Nope. Not gonna happen. It now appears it will be early next year before RGGI can go into effect–if ever.
In May 2021, the radicals from PennFuture, the Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council, and the so-called Center for Biological Diversity (better named the Center for Leftwing Conformity) challenged an air permit issued by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the Renovo Energy Center, a Marcellus-fired power plant in Clinton County (northcentral), PA (see