In 2013 more than half of the carbon monoxide and approximately twenty-five percent of the hydrocarbons emitted around the world resulted from the use of fossil fuels for transportation. In an attempt to decrease pollutants resulting from the use of fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency has published a goal of reducing the United States’ oil consumption by 29% between 2007 and 2030. Sixty percent of this reduction is to come from transportation, while the remainder is to result from alternative energy production and home heating methods. Hydrogen is envisioned to play a key role as an energy carrier for future clean transportation and energy production schemes. The primary barrier to the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier is the lack of large-scale hydrogen transportation and distribution systems. These hydrogen transportation networks will require considerable funding to engineer and install. While steel pipeline is the most economical means to transport gaseous hydrogen, it has been found that hydrogen has deleterious effects upon the quasi-static, fatigue, and fracture properties of carbon steels. This talk will focus on joint U.S. Departments of Transportation, Energy, and Commerce research being conducted to model the effects of hydrogen on pipeline steels in order to mitigate risk and minimize pipeline installation costs. This work has informed the ASME code body responsible for hydrogen pipeline engineering and installation, and ultimately led to a code modification that could result in a savings of $1M/mile of installed pipeline.