NUCLEAR: A company developing a nuclear fusion prototype at a Tennessee nuclear plant raises capital from enthusiastic investors who see potential for an alternative to creating nuclear power from fission. (Knoxville News Sentinel)

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PIPELINES: A company will resume construction on a pipeline from the Haynesville shale field to the Gulf Coast after a judge rules in its favor over another company trying to block it from crossing its pipelines. (Reuters)

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UTILITIES: 

  • Georgia Power customers are feeling the pinch from paying for a nuclear expansion and hot weather, while the utility’s parent company is coasting on a 43% increase in profits from last year. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  • A Florida city board unanimously approves a feasibility study to consider dropping Duke Energy as its power company and starting a municipal utility instead. (Spectrum News)
  • Entergy will grant Arkansas customers a bill credit due to a lawsuit over cost overruns at a Mississippi nuclear power plant. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, subscription)

CLIMATE: A study finds growth in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is raising temperatures in densely developed parts of the city. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

TRANSITION: Kentucky moves to develop new housing projects on former coal mines to attract residents to “high-ground” neighborhoods away from areas prone to flooding. (Louisville Public Media)

HYDROGEN: A Louisiana task force meets for the first time to discuss how to grow the state’s burgeoning clean hydrogen sector. (Louisiana Illuminator)

EMISSIONS: Virginia receives $150 million from the U.S. EPA to reduce emissions by capturing methane from mined lands and protecting wetlands and forests. (Virginia Mercury)

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Mason has worked as a journalist since 2001, covering Appalachian communities and the issues that affect them. He compiles the Southeast Energy News digest. Mason previously worked as a wildlife biologist before moving into journalism by freelancing at Coast Weekly in Monterey, California, before taking an internship in 2001 at High Country News. He wrote for the Enterprise Mountaineer in western North Carolina and the Roanoke Times in western Virginia before going freelance in 2012. His work has appeared in Southerly, Daily Yonder, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, WVPB’s Inside Appalachia and elsewhere. Mason was born and raised in Clifton Forge, Virginia, and now lives with his family and a small herd of goats in Floyd County, Virginia.