A proposal to make hydrogen from ethanol in the Central Valley town of Pixley met an official end on Tuesday after Tulare County officials bowed to a lawsuit by environmental justice groups and withdrew their approval.
Tulare County formally withdrew its approval of a California Environmental Quality Act exemption for Proteum Energy’s Golden State Hydrogen Plant at a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.
The withdrawal followed a Nov. 12 request from the county’s Resource Management Agency to remove the notice of exemption after Proteum Energy rescinded the project application.
Tulare County granted the 28-acre project an exemption from California Environmental Quality Act review in January on the grounds that the property was zoned for light manufacturing.
