HARRISBURG, Pa. — The centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change is taking another step on its way to reaching the final regulatory threshold to impose a price on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants in Pennsylvania.
The Environmental Quality Board, composed primarily of Wolf appointees, approved the plan 15-4 on Tuesday. The Independent Regulatory Review Commission could take it up this fall.
Wolf’s administration wants to the plan to take effect next year as part of a multi-state consortium, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which sets a price and declining limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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