Biden Administration Launches Program to Curb Industrial GHG Emissions

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President Biden is launching a multi-pronged program to reduce industrial sector greenhouse gas emissions, detailed on Yahoo News.

The centerpiece of the plan, which will cover activities like manufacturing and cement production, is $8 billion in spending on Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, a Department of Energy initiative funded by the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Clean Hydrogen, also known as Green Hydrogen, is created using low-carbon energy sources and can be used as a replacement for natural gas in uses such as heating.

The administration is also creating a Buy Clean Task Force that will prioritize buying products with lower carbon footprints for federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation. On Tuesday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality will also issue guidance on how to ensure that carbon capture and storage—a process in which emissions from factories or power plants would be captured at the smokestack and stored underground—can be done in an environmentally responsible manner.

“With these announcements, we won’t just be creating more manufacturing jobs, we’ll be advancing clean manufacturing, so that we can lead the world with an industrial sector that is rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions [and] rapidly reducing local air pollution,” a senior administration official told reporters during a Monday press briefing. The full article is here.