Policy miasma: Failure to crack down on methane emissions thwarts EU’s ‘clean hydrogen’ push

The European Commission is putting hydrogen at the heart of the EU Green Deal without first driving the most potent climate-warming gas out of the fuel required to produce it.

The European Commission has done more than probably any international body to advance the issue of climate neutrality on the world stage. Its European Green Deal has set in motion an ambitious policy package intended to set the 27-member bloc on a path towards ‘net zero’ climate emissions by 2050.

Policy proposals from the EU’s executive arm are prone to…