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

  

  The coal deposits in the Powder River Basin are the most vast and cheapest to mine in the United States. Now mining companies hope to turn what has been a domestic energy resource into an international one, eyeing lucrative markets in growing Asian economies... 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... Read the full article...

  

• New reference book offers exhaustive overview of Yellowstone geography

  

  Deciding exactly where and what Yellowstone is depends on whom you ask, and what data is used to answer the question. A newly published reference book aims to define Yellowstone in as many ways as possible, using more than 800 maps with thousands of illustrations... 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...

  

• Deer-ly Departed: Revelation of mule deer ‘stop-over’ behavior may alter drilling plans in Bridger Teton Forest

  

  Plans to introduce 136 natural gas wells into the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields in the Wyoming Range. But the project has drawn objection from the conservation community, who've been fueled by a new research report detailing mule deer behavior... Read the full article...

  

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