Climate activists are doing a victory lap as the House hit pause on a proposal to ease Massachusetts’ 2030 climate target from an energy affordability bill.

The 2030 limit obligates Massachusetts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 1990 levels by the end of the decade.

The bill, drafted by Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee House Chair Mark Cusack, was an effort by House Democrats to redefine the state’s energy transition around affordability and competitiveness, State House News reported.

It was a bright moment, though brief: affordability taking center stage in legislation.

Among its provisions, the proposal would detach the Mass Save program from its emissions-reduction mandate and return it to a cost-effectiveness focus; lift the ban on Mass Sav

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