{"id":252715,"date":"2024-06-18T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/hydrogen-and-renewable-gas-arent-realistic-solutions-for-decarbonizing-maines-buildings\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:30:45","slug":"hydrogen-and-renewable-gas-arent-realistic-solutions-for-decarbonizing-maines-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/hydrogen-and-renewable-gas-arent-realistic-solutions-for-decarbonizing-maines-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen and \u201cRenewable\u201d Gas Aren\u2019t Realistic Solutions for Decarbonizing Maine\u2019s Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last month, the Maine legislature ended their session without formally enacting several pieces of environmental legislation, allowing the bills to die.<\/p>\n
This included a bill that would have started a statewide conversation about the diminished role fossil fuels should play in Maine\u2019s energy system as the state strives to meet its climate and clean energy commitments. The bill was set to require the state to conduct various studies and inquiries about fossil fuel use, particularly the use of methane gas (often called \u201cnatural gas\u201d) in buildings.<\/p>\n
From the time it was introduced in December, this gas study bill went through major changes before dying on Maine\u2019s appropriations table (read on, I\u2019ll explain that part in a bit). But since the bill\u2019s introduction, gas utilities\u2019 response to it included a consistent and disingenuous piece of messaging: what if we…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n