OIL & GAS: Texas’ natural gas industry faces uncertainty after the U.S. EPA passes a new rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired and new gas plants, forcing them to rely on largely untested carbon capture technology or shut down. (Houston Chronicle, States Newsroom) ALSO: COAL ASH: Advocates cheer and call for hearty enforcement […]
Author Archives: Mason Adams
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.