The energy source that could survive Trump's attack on California's green ambitions

Hydrogen is a growing yet controversial source of energy that some see as key to California’s ambitious climate goals.

A new project in Vernon will be one of the largest hydrogen production-and-dispensing facilities in the country when it opens this fall.

The facility is rising despite efforts by the Trump administration to stifle green-energy initiatives.

At a construction site along the Los Angeles River, just south of where four freeways converge in Vernon, a crane hoisted a set of massive white pipes into the air on a recent weekday morning.

The pipes will eventually be connected to fuel dispensers where they will serve as storage vessels for hydrogen — a growing yet controversial source of energy that some see as key to California’s ambitious climate goals.

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