How close Pennsylvania gets to seeing Gov. Tom Wolf’s vision come to fruition will come down to how legislators, regulators, local zoning boards, and municipalities use what’s available to them. It could also come down to the outcome in November of a contentious gubernatorial race — between a far-right senator, Doug Mastriano, who once called climate science “fake,” and the commonwealth’s current attorney general, Josh Shapiro, who supports a green energy buildout and has charged several fossil fuel giants with environmental crimes — and the potential shift of legislative power after a midterm election with redrawn electoral maps.
This story was first published on Oct. 12 in Capital & Main…