Blue Hydrogen: What You Need to Know

This panel discussion offered a close look at blue hydrogen, an alternative form of energy based on fossil fuels (primarily methane gas) that uses a network of pipelines and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce its carbon dioxide pollution. Blue hydrogen hubs have been much discussed recently in the media and were advanced in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. But what is blue hydrogen, and is it really a viable energy source or appropriate for certain uses? And what are the health risks of blue hydrogen hubs to residents living near these operations or the gas extraction sites on which they depend?