• Heat Exchange: Efforts to increase Wyoming coal exports turns the heat up on legal challenges to impacts both local and global

  

  “Forever West,” is Wyoming’s state slogan, but with the state's economy more reliant on the energy industry than the cattle industry, “Forever Coal,” may be more fitting. Wyoming has had as much of a romance with coal as with ranching. However, a new… Read the full article...

  

• Wyoming officials grapple with coal export ambitions while spending millions on clean coal research

  

  In light of the Powder River Basin coal industry’s recent focus to ship more coal to China and other burgeoning Asian economies, industry officials are taking heat for not doing more to support the deployment of so-called advanced coal technologies here at home. Wyoming… Read the full article...

  

• New reference book offers exhaustive overview of Yellowstone geography

  

  Originally published at YellowstoneGate.com, an independent, online news service offering Yellowstone and Grand Teton community news and inside views.   CODY, WYO. — Deciding exactly where and what Yellowstone is depends on whom you ask, and what data… Read the full article...

  

• Debate rages over the impact of federal regulations on drilling, jobs

  

  A day after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved a major new natural gas drilling project in Utah, a new study concludes that federal regulations have delayed 22 major drilling projects representing thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact... Read the full article...

  

• EPA gives heavily drilled Wyoming area three years to improve

  

  U.S. EPA has determined that southwest Wyoming's Upper Green River Basin no longer meets federal ground-level ozone pollution standards, a conclusion that could significantly affect two of the nation's largest oil and natural gas fields... Read the full article...

  

• Surface damage from Niobrara seismic work results in citations

  

  Seismic crews working in the Niobrara shale oil play caused serious rutting and other surface damage earlier this year on 10 different ranch properties in southeast Wyoming, resulting in several state-issued citations for the operator and the seismic contractor... Read the full article...

  

Allen Best