On Beacon Hill, clean energy talks fizzle amid finger-pointing [Video]

Lawmakers in the state House and Senate have failed to get a stoppage time deal on clean energy permitting and other climate-related policies.

The House and Senate gaveled out of formal sessions on Thursday amid sniping and finger-pointing.

“I was looking forward to a glorious morning. I’m not sure we’re going to have quite the celebration that I had been planning. Technically, the bill is still alive,” Sen. Michael Barrett, D-3rd Middlesex, said.

The upper chamber was “fully committed to producing a balanced package that raises your electric bills but constrains your gas bills, providing some balance. But the balance is proving elusive. Not sure the House subscribes to the idea that we should give people relief, even as we expand the grid and make people pay a significant amount to do so.”

Barrett suggested that the issues tied up in the six-person conference committee — reforms to the siting …