Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled General Assembly failed April 4 in a last-ditch effort to block the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, a regulation requiring fossil fuel-fired power plants to pay a price for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit, The Associated Press reported.

A 32-17 vote in the Pennsylvania Senate failed to reach a two-thirds threshold to block a regulation written by the Wolf administration that could make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy.

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