For the past two decades, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the shale revolution, which has delivered incredible quantities of affordable natural gas and fundamentally reshaped national and global energy markets. What’s incredible is not just the sheer scale of production — the gas produced in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale also has the lowest emissions of any basin in the United States, according to environmental group data. As a result, many of the companies here are certified producers of differentiated natural gas (DNG), which validates the ultra-low-methane attributes of natural gas produced here. Now, a bipartisan coalition of federal and state policymakers, businesses, and labor unions are hoping to leverage our low-methane, abundant natural gas reserves to help spur the development of clean hydrogen. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) of 2021 established the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) Program, which would form the foundation of a national clean hydrogen network that could decarbonize some of our state’s highest emitting sectors of the economy, like steel and cement production, and heavy-duty transportation.

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