What was once the centerpiece of Pennsylvania’s clean energy push is dead. Long live clean energy?

Although not quite with the speed of royal succession, the conversation in Harrisburg moved on quickly following the long-awaited budget deal that finally killed Pennsylvania’s delayed attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade program to limit emissions from power plants.

Lawmakers are already talking about what might come next. Republicans, who had fought tooth and nail against RGGI, are expecting a wave of investment in natural gas-fired power. Democrats, despite having thrown in the towel on RGGI, are looking for other green energy ideas that might have bipartisan appeal, or at least present Republicans with less leverage in opposing them.

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