Oregon’s largest gas utility, NW Natural, has in recent years touted hydrogen-blended gas and “renewable natural gas” as the solution to reducing the carbon intensity of its fuels and meeting the state’s targets for curbing planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution.

Under Oregon’s Climate Protection Program, natural gas companies are responsible for at least 26% of the overall reduction in the state’s greenhouse gas pollution needed to get to 50% cuts by 2035 and 90% cuts to emissions by 2050.

To do it, the company partnered with Seattle-based Modern Hydrogen and with Tyson Foods Inc. The 2024 partnership with Modern Hydrogen was for a three-year pilot project to blend “green hydrogen” into the fuel NW Natural sends to customers. The 2023 Tyson Foods partnership involved a small-scale gas

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