Utility’s solution to sea-level rise: A floating fossil-fuel plant

POWER PLANTS: Entergy Louisiana proposes a $441 million floating natural gas power plant on land that is disappearing due to sinking and sea-level rise, which is expected to worsen from fossil fuel-driven climate change. (Floodlight)

OIL & GAS: Arlington, Texas, city councilors say they hate approving new gas well drilling but that a 2015 state law prohibits them denying permits. ​“We had to vote for it. Contact your legislator.” (Fort Worth Report)

PIPELINES: Six Southwest Virginia landowners who are challenging federal regulators’ use of eminent domain for the Mountain Valley Pipeline are appealing their case again to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Cardinal News)

OVERSIGHT: Black voters who sued over Georgia’s system for electing state utility regulators appeal their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. (WABE/​Grist)

UTILITIES: ​“This is a fossil fuel bonanza.” Clean energy advocates slam an agreement between Georgia Power and state regulators to add three new gas combustion turbines, which the utility says will result in cost savings for ratepayers. (Macon Telegraph)

OFFSHORE WIND: Emails show Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office quietly helped write a bill that would ban offshore wind in state waters, a version of which is awaiting his signature to become law. (Tampa Bay Times)

CARBON CAPTURE: The U.S. Department of Energy awards $50 million to a direct-air carbon capture project in southwest Louisiana designed to annually remove 1 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere. (Heatmap)

METHANE: South Florida officials celebrate a groundbreaking for the region’s first renewable natural gas production facility, a $40 million public-private partnership at a county landfill. (CBS12)

CLIMATE: A study led by Virginia Tech researchers suggests that by midcentury flooding will affect 1 in 50 residents in two dozen U.S. coastal cities. (Inside Climate News)