Wyoming

IREA Voices, a citizen activist group formed to combat the climate change policies of the state’s largest rural electric co-op, is pointing its members to a new study conducted by a former biochemist in Colorado who says the nation’s coal supply may run out in the next two decades.
Leslie Glustrom, now with Boulder-based Clean Energy [...]

Louis Meeks says he witnessed shoddy hydraulic fracturing practices on his ranch near Pavillion, Wyo., by an oil and gas company fined for the same thing in Colorado, and wants the federal government to regulate the process because states seem incapable of proper oversight.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Oil and gas industry watchdog groups in Garfield County want the state to dramatically step up groundwater testing near gas drilling operations in the wake of new evidence that hydraulic fracturing may have contaminated drinking-water wells in Wyoming.

Colorado ranks a surprising fourth on the list of states hosting wet coal-ash dumping ponds. An Environmental Protection Agency list obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by environmental groups lists 40 ponds in Colorado. The Agency tallied 584 ponds located around the country.
Coal ash, the residue produced by coal-fired power plants, is [...]

Any Coloradan who’s spent a significant amount of time living or working back east knows how difficult it is to duplicate the true wilderness experiences one finds in the wide-open spaces of the Rocky Mountain West.
There are places, like along the Appalachian Trail, where a few precious hours of natural solace can be snatched from [...]

The rest of the Rocky Mountain West needs to learn from Wyoming’s love affair with fossil fuels. Here’s why: The economic and political pressure to drill for gas and oil and to mine coal is probably too great for Colorado and Wyoming’s other neighbors to fight off.

Buck McVeigh has a bumper sticker that he uses in the presentations he makes as administrator of Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division. The bumper sticker says, “Please, God, give us one more energy boom. We promise not to screw it up this time.”

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal has appointed Casper physician and state Sen. John Barrasso as Wyoming’s U.S. Senator to replace the late Craig Thomas.

Freudenthal chose Barrasso from a list of three names that were submitted to him by the Wyoming Republican Central Committee, which had in turn winnowed those three down from a bushel of applicants [...]

Wyoming Republicans  have winnowed the field of 28 potential candidates to replace the late U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas to three. The finalists are: former Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department Tom Sansonetti; State Sen. John Barrasso; and former state legislator and former State Treasurer Cynthia Lummis.

The list [...]

Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Boys State at the Wyoming State Fairgrounds in Douglas, Wyo., this past weekend. His limo was flown in on Air Force 2 for the 48 mile drive from Casper to Douglas.

The Veep’s speech did not include a plea for energy conservation, nor did he outline [...]