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EnergyPlatform.News(letter)
December 1, 2025
In this week’s edition of energy and environmental policy news across the states: Climate change focus shifts as Gates and others reassess, DOE invests $1.5 billion to revive Indiana coal plant, At a glance: Arkansas
Plus: Jonathan Wood, Property and Environment Research Center: Prescribed fire is a critical, but underused, conservation tool
In a stunning reversal, billionaire Bill Gates has backed off from previous climate change alarmism, now acknowledging global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise,” and resources would be better spent elsewhere.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced a $1.5 billion loan to a coal and ammonia fertilizer facility in West Terre Haute, Indiana. The loan will help Wabash Valley Resources (WVR) restart the plant after it went inactive in 2016 by repurposing energy infrastructure to produce domestic fertilizer.
A snapshot of energy and environmental facts about the state of Arkansas.
Many forest and grassland ecosystems in the United States are fire-adapted, meaning that periodic, low- or moderate-intensity fires are necessary to maintain ecosystem health and to support native plants and wildlife.
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