Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion Get tax right or clean hydrogen will be bigger boondoggle than biofuels

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April 27, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
Pressure gauges at a hydrogen storage facility at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. (Chet Strange for The Washington Post)
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School. Danny Cullenward is a climate economist and co-author of “Making Climate Policy Work.”

Now that the only thing as certain as death and taxes is climate change, it is perhaps no surprise that the Internal Revenue Service is critical to emissions policy.