{"id":251508,"date":"2024-05-22T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/where-are-we-now-on-community-engagement\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:13:45","slug":"where-are-we-now-on-community-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/where-are-we-now-on-community-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are We Now on Community Engagement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-wysiwyg=\"\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Last October, President Biden and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) announced seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, spanning 16 states, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) hydrogen hub (H2Hubs) program. As NRDC noted after the announcement of the $8 billion program, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: \u201cThe process to distribute a pot of money this big with the potential to shape entire industries and state economies shouldn\u2019t be a black box\u2026.Thus far, transparency in the administration of the hubs program has been sorely lacking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Seven months later, a lack of transparency and community engagement remains the case. Despite concerted efforts by groups across the country, environmental justice advocates and frontline communities have largely been kept in the dark on key details and basic information about many of these projects&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/batoul-sadi\/seven-months-after-doe-hydrogen-hub-announcement-where-are-we-now-community\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on www.nrdc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, President Biden and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) announced seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, spanning 16 states, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) hydrogen hub (H2Hubs) program. As NRDC noted after the announcement of the $8 billion program, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: \u201cThe process to distribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":251509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Are We Now on Community Engagement? - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/batoul-sadi\/seven-months-after-doe-hydrogen-hub-announcement-where-are-we-now-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where Are We Now on Community Engagement?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last October, President Biden and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) announced seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, spanning 16 states, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) hydrogen hub (H2Hubs) program. 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