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No False Solutions PA Fact Sheets/Basics

Our Fact Sheets are excerpts of our coalition’s position statement

Hydrogen Fact Sheet

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Fact Sheet

Advanced Recycling Fact Sheet

The Basics: Lithium

The Basics: Pore Space

Hydrogen Hub Information

MACH 2 Hydrogen Hub – Delaware Riverkeeper Network

ARCH 2 Hydrogen Hub – Ohio River Valley Institute

Fact Sheets/Reports/Webpages

Countering Hydrogen Hype in Shapiro’s First Budget Address – Ohio River Valley Institute Toolkit

Hydrogen: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly – Food & Water Watch fact sheet

The Hydrogen Hustle: How the Biden Administration can prevent another fossil fuel subsidy – Sarah Lutz, Climate Campaigner, Friends of the Earth

Hydrogen Pipe Dreams: why burning hydrogen in buildings is bad for climate and health – PSR Environment

Hydrogen page from CarbonCaptureFacts.org

CCS Overview from CarbonCaptureFacts.org

Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution – Center for International Environmental Law briefing

Hydrogen’s Global Warming Impacts – Clean Energy Group fact sheet

Blue and Green Hydrogen Production: Potential Harms and Global Warming Impacts – Clean Energy Group fact sheet

Resources by Topic

Advanced Recycling

Paused Ohio chemical recycling plant puts spotlight on Appalachia as “prime target” for the controversial practice – Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News

Carbon Capture and Storage and Pore Space

Achieving Deep Carbon Reductions Paths for Pennsylvania’s Electricity Future, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, June 2017

Assessment of Risk, Legal Issues, and Insurance for Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Pennsylvania, DCNR, 2009

Carbon Capture: The PR and the Realities – June Sekera

Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Exploring a Southwestern Pennsylvania Geologic Demonstration Project, Status Report, Jan Lauer, University of Pittsburgh, August 2008

Carbon Capture and Storage: Final Report, PennState

Carbon Capture Desperately Needs a Reality Check After Lost Decade, Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg

Carbon Capture Has a Long History. Of Failure. – Bruce Robertson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds, Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, June 10, 2024

Carbon Capture Won’t Fix Our Climate Problem – June Sekera, Canada’s National Observer

Geologic Carbon Sequestration Opportunities in Pennsylvania, DCNR, 2009

Irregular Is What’s Regular for CO2 Storage Plumes, Stephen Rassenfoss, Journal of Petroleum Technology, January 10, 2023

A Low Carbon Energy Transition in Southwest Pennsylvania, Roosevelt Project, October 2021

Oil and Natural Gas Industry Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects, Part II: Carbon Capture and Geological Storage Emission Reduction Family, International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association and American Petroleum Institute, June 2007

Pennsylvania’s Path Forward for Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage – Clean Air Task Force, Great Plains Institute, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, 2022

The Pore Space Beneath Our Feet: What We Mean When We Say Carbon Storage – Sandra Steingraber, SEHN, 2024

Report of the Carbon Management Advisory Group, DCNR, 2008

Risk Assessment for Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Pennsylvania – Tetratech, 2010

Viability of a Large-Scale Carbon Capture & Sequestration Network
In Pennsylvania, Clinton Climate Institute, November 2009

Vulnerability Evaluation Framework for Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide, EPA, July 10, 2008

A Weak Spot in Carbon Sequestration: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells – Nicholas Kusnetz, Undark

What’s the Deal with Carbon Capture and Storage – Cameron Oglesby, Yale Climate Connections

CO2 Pipelines

The Gassing of Satartia – Dan Zegart, HuffPo

Decarbonization

Planetary boundaries assessment of deep decarbonisation options for building heating in the European Union – Till Weidner, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez

False Solutions

Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist – Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American

Hydrogen

The ‘Big Lie’ of Blue Hydrogen Starts With Ignoring Basic Economics, Justin Mikulka, DeSmog

‘Climate Scam’: 180+ Groups Tell Biden to Drop Support for Hydrogen, Jake Johnson, Common Dreams

Heating Households and Buildings: Heat Pumps will be up to three times cheaper than Green Hydrogen – Josh Gabbatiss, energypost.eu

How Green Is Blue Hydrogen – Mark Jacobson and Bob Howarth

Hydrogen Leakage: A Potential Risk for the Hydrogen Economy – Columbia U. Center on Global Energy Policy

Is heating homes with hydrogen all but a pipe dream? An evidence review – Jan Rosenow

Is hydrogen really a clean enough fuel to tackle the climate crisis? – Nina Lakhani, The Guardian

Risk of the hydrogen economy for atmospheric methane – Matteo B. Bertagni

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