{"id":247644,"date":"2024-03-25T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/ucs-testimony-on-the-clean-hydrogen-production-tax-credit\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:54:33","slug":"ucs-testimony-on-the-clean-hydrogen-production-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/ucs-testimony-on-the-clean-hydrogen-production-tax-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"UCS Testimony on the Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;&lt;br&gt;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"\/>From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen.  <\/p>\n<p>My comments, to be presented on March 27, are copied below. They focus on four key issues from the full set of technical comments UCS submitted to the record in February: correctness of Treasury\u2019s overall approach; necessity of the three-pillars framework; need for updating upstream methane emissions accounting; and concerns over treatment of biomethane and fugitive methane.  <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>Presented via telephone during the March 27, 2024, public hearing for Docket ID No. REG-117631-23. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>My name is Julie McNamara, and I\u2019m testifying in my role as deputy policy director, Climate &amp; Energy, at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Thank you for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/julie-mcnamara\/ucs-testimony-on-the-clean-hydrogen-production-tax-credit\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen. My comments, to be presented on March 27, are copied below. 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