OIL & GAS: The five Republican members of Georgia’s regulatory board vote unanimously to approve Georgia Power’s plan to build three new gas-fired units at a power plant and bill ratepayers for the cost while skipping the normal bidding process for construction. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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SOLAR: Louisiana lawmakers ask a parish board to pause consideration of new solar projects — including a proposed 375 MW facility — until state regulators implement new rules requiring such projects to go through a state permitting process and provide a decommissioning plan. (KPLC)

CARBON CAPTURE: A company drops its plan to build a carbon capture facility alongside its $18.4 billion Texas liquified natural gas facility that’s already under construction, but which recently hit a legal snag. (DeSmog)

WIND: Virginia residents complain of noise and disruption from construction of Dominion Energy’s offshore wind farm. (WTKR)

EMISSIONS: A Louisiana activist fights a fuel company’s plans to build a blue ammonia plant to generate hydrogen and feedstock for the fertilizer industry that residents fear will only intensify pollution in an already burdened community. (Floodlight)

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FINANCING: A Florida county board considers reinstituting a program to fund clean energy improvements that it banned in 2020 after homeowners complained the cost was attached to their property tax bills. (WFLA)

CLIMATE: A coalition of prisoner’s rights groups seek to persuade a federal judge to issue an order requiring Texas to install air conditioning in its prisons, where researchers have found the heat index can exceed 110 degrees Fahrenheit. (E&E News)

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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.