A bipartisan group of California legislators are urging the state direct more funding to build hydrogen fueling stations.

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The legislators want the California Energy Commission (CEC) to allocate $20 million to build a network of hydrogen fueling outlets under the state’s Clean Transportation Plan.

State Rep. Jim Frazier, chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee and fellow legislators sent a letter to CEC Commissioner Patty Monahan calling out the CEC for failing to allocate the hydrogen funds in a recent update to the transportation plan.

The failure “undermines California’s ability to reach five million zero-emission vehicles through the build-out of 200 publicly available hydrogen fueling stations,” the letter stated. The state has “only a small share of...