Wyoming

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Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales

The prohibition is in response to a conservation group that bid on a lease parcel intending to spare it from being developed.

By Dustin Bleizeffer .

16 July 2024

A Sublette Herd pronghorn sizes up an intruder in its habitat within the confines of Jonah Energy’s Normally Pressured Lance gas field in August 2023 Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

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Coal industry a no-show at Wyoming event to rally against federal leasing ban

The Wyoming county is circulating a petition to accompany its formal protest against the BLM’s ‘no future leasing’ proposal.

By Dustin Bleizeffer . 7 June 2024
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Wyoming rate hike inspires slew of bills to scrutinize electric utilities

Rocky Mountain Power’s proposed 30% rate hike is under scrutiny at the Public Service Commission and down the street at the Wyoming Capitol.

By Dustin Bleizeffer . 3 November 2023
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Greenlit powerlines forecast Wyoming wind energy boom

Developers are poised to double Wyoming’s wind energy capacity, replacing coal as the state’s top source of electrical generation.

By Dustin Bleizeffer . 3 June 2022
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Wyoming's Gillette and Campbell County plan for post-coal economy

The ‘Energy Capital of the Nation’ looks to events, sports, and carbon tech to offset its diminishing fossil fuels industries.

By Dustin Bleizeffer . 3 November 2021
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Wyoming climate data holds ominous clues about life, economy

By Dustin Bleizeffer . 3 November 2021
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Wyoming residents observe a changing climate and quality of life

Extreme conditions feel like the continuation of a shift in climate patterns residents have observed over their lifetimes, they say.

By Dustin Bleizeffer . 3 November 2021
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Coal-rich Wyoming eyes net-zero emissions. Is that possible?

"I challenge you to join me in making Wyoming net-negative in CO2 emissions," Gov. Mark Gordon told lawmakers in Cheyenne this month.

By Heather Richards . 15 March 2021
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Power from the Prairie aims to link West Coast sun with Midwest wind

A pair of energy consultants are promoting an HVDC interstate transmission-plus-storage project that could complete a link between California and Chicago.

By Karen Uhlenhuth . 24 November 2020
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Survival is anything but certain for coal country

Coal country is not without options. But coal’s long legacy of hope, promises and failure has instilled a political inertia that won’t soon be overcome.

By Mason Adams . 25 August 2020
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Coal country envisions paths forward in manufacturing, reclamation and renewables

Communities contemplate how to survive a post-extraction economy.

By Mason Adams . 18 August 2020