Procrastinating legislating

— “Baker in take-it-or-leave-it position on climate bill,” by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: “The Legislature returned compromise climate legislation to Gov. Charlie Baker on Sunday and urged him to sign it into law even though he didn’t get all the changes he wanted. … Baker sent the Legislature’s original climate change bill back on Friday with 19 pages of amendments, including a call for a $750 million appropriation of federal and state funds for clean energy development. The governor’s amendment also neutered a proposal to allow 10 Massachusetts communities to ban fossil fuel infrastructure in most new construction, did away with a price cap on offshore wind procurements, and restored the way the Clean Energy Center board is selected. The Legislature responded by amending the governor’s amendment, rejecting his proposed $750 million appropriation and his neutering of the 10-community proposal, while accepting his language eliminating the price cap and a change in the Clean Energy Center Board.”