Column - Law
Some cautionary notes about CO2 sequestration
02/14/2008
By Deb Donahue
   LARAMIE - Twenty years ago a huge explosion of gas from Lake Nyos in the central Africa Republic of Cameroon killed nearly 18,000 people and untold livestock up to 15 miles away. The
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News
GE and UW join forces on coal gasification research center
02/13/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
GE plant   General Electric Energy signed a letter of intent today with the University of Wyoming, to build a $100 million advanced coal gasification
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Just Overheard: GE/UW coal research in play
02/13/2008
By Geoffry O'Gara
The debate over carbon sequestration at the 2008 Wyoming State Legislature is fairly restrained – solons say they are simply laying the uncontroversial groundwork for the day, not too far off, when energy producers nationwide will have to keep the CO2 from burning fossil fuels out of the atmosphe
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Obama opens two Wyoming campaign offices
02/12/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
The Barak Obama for America presidential campaign is taking the Cowboy State very seriously, between now and the March 8th Democratic Caucus.

   In a Tuesday announcement, the Obama campaign announced the opening of campaign offices in Cheyenne and Laramie, with a dozen campai
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Special Project
Showdown at Glenrock: Brad Enzi rides to rescue Two Elk Power Plant
02/12/2008
By Rone Tempest
wyoming politics   After years of construction inactivity and several false starts, some wags in Wyoming’s coal rich Powder River Basin began to refer to the proposed billion dollar Two Elk power plant project 40 miles so
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Column - Environment
Postbellum: Legislative War on the West Recedes
02/12/2008
By Jason Marsden
      CHEYENNE -- In 1994, in one of the most brilliant political marketing ploys in the region’s history, property-rights and other anti-environmental lobbies concocted the &#
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Column - Politics
There's Money Enough
02/12/2008
By Marguerite Herman
   “We’re doing just fine,” was the pronouncement by Gov. Dave Freudenthal in a recent interview on Wyoming Public Television, concerning our revenue picture entering the 2008 legislative budget session.

   It’s not the picture awash
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News
Federal grazing fees hit bottom
02/12/2008
By Brodie Farquhar

    How low can the federal government go with grazing fees?
    Rock-bottom, according to both the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management in separate announcements last week. And according to a conservation group, it costs more to feed a hamster t

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Cattlemen band against state-held grazing leases
02/12/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
    wyoming politics    CHEYENNE -- At the behest of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, the Joint Ag Committee has approved a bill that
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