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The University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources, and its partners, are advancing multiple CO2 capture and sequestration demonstration projects at Basin Electric's Dry Fork Station north of Gillette, seen here on Sept. 2, 2022. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
State seeks public comment on proposals submitted by Black Hills Energy, natural gas pipeline giant Williams Companies and others.
The Wyoming Energy Authority has recommended Gov. Mark Gordon award a combined $37.5 million to support six energy projects, including coal-to-...
Rep. Steve Harshman (R-Casper) speaks during the 2021 legislative session. (Michael Cummo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle/Wyoming News Exchange)
FROM WYOFILE:
Multiple mailers that turned up in Northeast and Central Wyoming mailboxes this fall are now the subject of a state inquiry.
As summer turned to fall in Wyoming this year, red and gold political leaflets began to appear in mailboxes.
At first glance, the oversized glossy...
Conveyors pile coal at the Jim Bridger power plant outside Rock Springs on Jan. 19, 2022. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)
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At least 19 workers will be discharged at the Black Butte mine, flaming tensions with the Biden administration over coal permitting and climate policies.
Wyoming leaders blame Biden administration coal policies as well as bureaucratic delays they claim are deliberate for layoffs...
Wyoming AARP Director Sam Shumway presented the Wyoming Public Service Commission with a box of some 5,000 written comments from members opposing Rocky Mountain Power’s proposed electric rate increase during a formal hearing Oct. 25, 2023 in Cheyenne. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Final figures are still being calculated, but the Wyoming Public Service Commission announced plans to reduce the utility’s rate hike by nearly half.
Rocky Mountain Power won’t get the full $140.2 million annual rate hike — a 21.6% increase — that it wants, the Wyoming Public...
(Graphic by Diane Kaup-Benefiel/WyoFile)
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Hunters took advantage of lax regulations in Wyoming to electronically call in and kill three of six wolves from a pioneering pack less than a half-mile from the state line.
An electronic call drew the canine in.
The recorded sounds of a pronghorn in distress blared from a...
At 712 pounds and 41% body fat, Grizzly 566 was in extraordinary condition when Yellowstone National Park biologists handled the male bruin in October 2023. (C. Whitman/U.S. Geological Survey/IGBST)
FROM WYOFILE:
Coming out of a verdant summer, Wyoming bears were in good shape. One grizzly tipped the scales just three pounds shy of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s top mark.
Rotund, plump, hefty — go ahead and pick the fat synonym and it’ll likely aptly describe Grizzly 566, the second-...
Arapahoe Elementary School students work on a lesson in August 2023. (Katie Klingsporn/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Districts request support for mental health needs, counselors and substance abuse programs as educators strive to improve graduation rates and test scores.
FORT WASHAKIE—Wyoming can support tribal schools on the Wind River Indian Reservation with funds for additional language...
FROM WYOFILE:
School of Energy Resources now leads four federally funded carbon dioxide storage initiatives.
The University of Wyoming will receive up to $11.2 million in federal support to test deep geologic layers in the south-central portion of the state to determine if they are suitable...
In a breakout group to discuss the Rock Springs Area Resource Management Plan Revision stockmen John Hay III, president of the Rock Springs Grazing Association, and T. Wright Dickinson of the Vermillion Ranch work on the Wyoming alternative. (Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
As a governor’s task force considers a Wyoming alternative for 3.6 million acres of federal, public land, Rock Springs residents resist changes to today’s rules.
A conservation plan for 3.6 million acres of federal public lands in southwest Wyoming would devastate the local...
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CASPER — The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled in August that settlement agreements involving government entities are subject to the transparency requirements of the Wyoming Public Records Act, even when those settlements include confidentiality provisions.
At a glance, the court’s...
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