Emission not working with Universal Render Pipeline

Hi, I upgraded my project to the Universal Render Pipeline with Unity 2019.4.1f1

I have an object which is using the Lit shader that when clicked the following code is executed to enable emission on that object

  myGameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.SetColor("_EmissionColor",Color.yellow * 1.4f);

However, the emission doesn't seem to work although when I expand the shader properties on the inspector the emission field does indeed turn Yellow but it has no effect in the game.

If I clicked on the emission color in the inspector (As if I wanted to change the color manually using the color picker) everything suddenly works as expected!

I do have HDR enabled. I also tried calling EnableKeyword("_EmissionColor") on the game object renderer but it didn't work either.

Any ideas what is wrong and how can I fix it?