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energy reporter Daniel Mercer

A clean future or merely greenwashing? Critics claim Coalition's hydrogen plans are a 'fig leaf' for fossil fuels

There are hopes hydrogen can reduce industrial emissions, but observers say it could go either way. (ABC Graphics: Cordelia Brown )

Plans by the federal government to develop a "clean" hydrogen industry in Australia have been branded greenwashing by critics who say taxpayer money is being used to subsidise fossil fuel activities. 

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