Republican senators who have urged Energy Secretary Chris Wright not to block green energy funding for their states are working to determine whether their efforts will succeed.
The Department of Energy last month announced it would cancel nearly $8 billion in grants for hundreds of projects — most of them in Democratic-leaning states and districts. But a broader internal list that circulated in Washington suggested that more cancellations could be coming, including in GOP strongholds.
Republican Sens. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia quickly pressed DOE staff after the leak. Their states both host “hydrogen hubs” — multi-hundred-million-dollar projects to develop clean hydrogen — that appeared on the so-called “kill list.”
Cramer said recently developers at North Dakota’s Heartland Hydrogen Hub should start preparing for the worst.
