Opinion: California’s multibillion-dollar bet on hydrogen energy has downsides

The world is rushing to adopt clean energy technologies to combat the catastrophic effects of climate change — and rightly so. The stakes are too high for us to be doing anything less.

But using our most vulnerable communities as testing grounds for experimental solutions is not an acceptable cost, especially when those solutions are part of a last-ditch effort to prolong our reliance on fossil fuels.

Take the small California town of Orange Cove in Fresno County. As Capital & Main recently reported...