Energy

Wyoming produces much of America's thermal coal, and also is home to several coal-fired power plants.

‘We Need To Fight Back:’ Wyoming Takes First Step In New Action Against EPA Over Coal Rule

The State of Wyoming unveiled the beginnings of a plan Friday to pursue a new legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency, which wants to kill off coal- and natural-gas fired power plants.

Pat MaioJune 07, 2024

About 250 representatives of the mining industry from coal to uranium gathered in Cody for the Wyoming Mining Association’s 68th annual convention. One of the subtle themes emerging from the WMA convention was a heady conversation of messaging being developed to counter Washington, D.C.’s anti-fossil fuel policymakers.

Wyoming Miners Say U.S. Not Getting Truth About Coal, So They’ll Have To Do It

One of the underlying themes of this week’s Wyoming Mining Association convention in Cody is that the American public is being fed misinformation about coal,so it's up to them to do something about it.

Pat MaioJune 07, 2024

Mark Compton, executive director of the American Exploration & Mining Association, trade group for hard rock mining companies in Spokane, Washington, said the United States needs a central coordinating point for mining policy. “I believe personally that has to be in the White House,” said Compton in remarks at the Wyoming Mining Association’s annual convention in Cody, Wyoming.

Coal Companies Say Claim They’re Not There For Wyoming Miners A Cheap Shot

Coal industry leaders meeting in Cody for the Wyoming Mining Association's annual convention Thursday say cheap shots from Campbell County commissioners who don't feel they're engaged with folks in the Powder River Basin are unfair.

Pat MaioJune 06, 2024

Energy Fuels Inc. mines uranium in Wyoming and other states.

Wyoming Uranium Mining Outfit Expands To Australia For Rare Earths In $140M Deal

Energy Fuels, which is preparing to ramp up its Nichols Ranch uranium mine near Kaycee for production by 2025, has agreed to a $140 million deal to jointly develop a rare earths mining project in Australia.

Pat MaioJune 05, 2024

From left, Wyoming lawmakers Abbie Angelos, R-Gillette, Rep. Chris Knapp, R-Gillette, and Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette, who also is chairman of the Freedom Caucus, testify before the Campbell County Board of Commissioners about their opposition to a proposed Bureau of Land Management rule that would end coal mining on public lands by 2041. Bear said that the plan ignores basic “science, economics, and common sense.”

Biden’s BLM Rule To End Coal Casts Ominous Cloud Over Wyoming’s Coal Country

Coal miners from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin are worried and determined to fight a Biden administration rule to end coal mining there by 2041. They spent part of Tuesday responding, while also bracing to cut spending as coal revenues dwindle.

Pat MaioJune 05, 2024

Cattle cancher Ed Prosser’s farmland frontage extends to Chalk Bluff Road in south Cheyenne, where he’s expecting hundreds of cars to travel on their way to work to build a new $1.2 billion solar farm proposed by Canada’s Enbridge Inc.

$1.2 Billion South Cheyenne Solar Project Delayed By Road Upgrade

Enbridge Inc.’s proposed $1.2 billion solar farm development in South Cheyenne has run into a dispute with Laramie County officials over who is pay for a county-owned road needed for huge Microsoft and Meta data centers.

Pat MaioJune 04, 2024

Wyoming Coal Bust Means Budget Cuts Coming For State, Campbell County

Campbell County, located in the heart of the coal-rich Powder River Basin, plans to trim spending by more than $25 million in anticipation of a prolonged coal bust. The State of Wyoming could be short at least $50 million.

Pat MaioJune 03, 2024

A herd of cows graze under raised solar panels at a University of Minnesota test ranch.

Wyoming Solar Farms Want Cows, Pigs And Sheep Roaming Under Panels

Solar farm developers in Wyoming are banking on a menagerie of barnyard animals to graze under hundreds of thousands of panels planned for construction from one end of the state to the other.

Pat MaioJune 01, 2024

A 133-car coal train leaves the Buckskin Mine in Campbell County, Wyoming, in this 2006 file photo.

How Wyoming Missed The Boat On An Interstate Coal Pipeline Nearly 50 Years Ago

Until the last decade or so, Wyoming’s coal industry did nothing but boom. But the yearslong bust that’s followed has people playing the “what if” game, like what if the state had built a proposed coal pipeline nearly 50 years ago?

Pat MaioMay 31, 2024

Wyoming Files Third Lawsuit Over EPA's Rules Designed To Kill Off Coal Industry

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon announced Thursday that the state has filed a third lawsuit challenging new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency which will destroy the coal industry.

Pat MaioMay 30, 2024

BLM To Hold Wyoming’s Smallest Oil And Gas Lease Auction In 15 Years

The Wyoming office the federal BLM is scheduled to hold an auction for oil and gas leases in June that will be one of the smallest in the Cowboy State in years.

Pat MaioMay 29, 2024

While construction has begun at the site of TerraPower's Natrium nuclear facility near Kemmerer, Wyoming, testing of the technology that will be used in the reactor continues at the company's testing facility in Everett, Washington.

Wyoming To Expand Critical Minerals Permitting To Include Uranium, Rare Earths

With Wyoming positioning to become ground zero for a new U.S. nuclear power revolution, the state is finalizing rules to expand its energy regulatory authority to include uranium and rare earths mining, aka “nuclear source material."

Pat MaioMay 28, 2024

Hi Market co-manager CJ Allison changes the price of unleaded gas from $3.34 a gallon to $2.38 a gallon on Saturday.

Conservative Advocacy Group Lowers Gas To $2.38 A Gallon At Cheyenne Gas Station

On a nationwide bus tour, conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity gave a $1 discount to motorists filling up at a Cheyenne gas station Sunday, rolling back the price to $2.38 a gallon, what it was at the beginning of the Biden administration.

Pat MaioMay 26, 2024

Matt Balcazar, who works at PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston coal-fired power plant in Glenrock, isn’t happy with PacifiCorp after he’s had trouble getting them to listen to him about why he needs long-term medical care following a coal dust fire at the Dave Johnston plant on Nov. 2, 2022. This is a photo of Balcazar shortly after he was airlifted by helicopter from the Dave Johnston plant to the burn unit of the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado.

Life Will Never Be The Same For Pair Caught In Flash Fire At Wyoming Power Plant

Barely four weeks on the job, electrician Matthew Balcazar and a co-worker were severely burned when a coal-dust combustion erupted in a storage silo at the Dave Johnston power plant near Glenrock, Wyoming.

Pat MaioMay 24, 2024

Exploratory work being performed by Visionary Metals Corp. at its King Solomon prospect site, located north of Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

Visionary Metals May Have A $1 Billion Nickel Claim In Central Wyoming

Lander-based Visionary Metals, whose chief executive has family ties to the famed uranium heartland community of Jeffrey City, is staking a potential $1 billion claim on America’s next big strategic mineral — nickel.

Pat MaioMay 23, 2024

South Cheyenne rancher Ed Prosser drives past Black Angus cattle feeding on prairie grass near his 2,800-acre ranch. Canada energy giant Enbridge Inc. plans to build a $1.2 billion solar farm to the north and east of his land.

Huge 1.2 Million-Panel Wyoming Solar Farm Gets Green Light To Build

The largest solar power project in Wyoming — a $1.2 billion, 1.2-million panel farm -- on Tuesday was given the green light to start building. It will supply electricity to the incoming data centers which will be built in south Cheyenne.

Pat MaioMay 22, 2024

Crypto, Data Centers, Push for EVs Will Explode The Need For Electricity, Barrasso Says

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday that the amount of energy the country will need in five years is going to increase so much, it's like "adding a whole new California."

Pat MaioMay 21, 2024

An illustration of what an "orchard" of silos to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and sequester it underground in central Wyoming could look like.

Firm That Wants To Build Carbon-Sucking Silos In Wyoming Signs Deal With Saudis

Spiritus, a venture capital firm that wants to build a direct air carbon capture project in Wyoming, signed a deal with Saudi-backed Aramco Ventures to develop its technology on a pilot project in the Middle Eastern country.

Pat MaioMay 20, 2024

Can Wyoming Break With Federal Government And Become Energy Independent?

Wyoming legislators are examining an approach to energy independence and ownership of coal- and natural-gas power plants that would directly pit them against the Biden administration’s policy of ending coal production by 2041.

Pat MaioMay 20, 2024

Rig workers move pipe at a coalbed methane well in the Powder River Basin south of Gillette in this file photo.

Wyoming Oil And Gas Group Challenges Suffocating EPA, BLM Rules

The Petroleum Association of Wyoming joined with other trade groups this week to file a pair of lawsuits challenging Biden administration rules that could suffocate gas, oil and methane production.

Pat MaioMay 16, 2024

President Joe Biden, left, and a Powder River Basin coal shovel loading a haul truck.

Biden Administration's BLM Issues Rule To Kill Wyoming Coal By 2041

The BLM issued a rule on Thursday that would end coal production in Wyoming's energy-rich Powder River Basin by 2041. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon said his attorney general will pursue legal options to challenge the rule.

Pat MaioMay 16, 2024

RMP: $116M Electricity Rate Hike For Wyoming Due To Inflation, Coal Disruptions

The president of Rocky Mountain Power says their proposed $116.3 million electricity rate hike for Wyoming residents is due to Inflation and coal market disruptions. This hike would be in addition to an 8.3% increase that went into effect Jan 1

Pat MaioMay 15, 2024

The Halleck Creek site in Wyoming, now called the Cowboy State Mine site.

Wyoming's Rare Earths Industry May See Boost from Chinese Tariffs On Imports

Wyoming’s burgeoning rare earths industry may have received a big boost by the federal government with the announcement of $18 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods. The tariffs will affect minerals that Wyoming has a super abundance of.

Pat MaioMay 14, 2024

The Sinclair refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming, in this 2011 file photo.

Combined HF Sinclair Reports 7% Revenue Drop In First Quarter Since Merger

Dallas-based HF Sinclair Corp., formed when HollyFrontier bought Sinclair, reports a 7% drop in revenue in the new company’s first quarterly report. It also predicts an upturn for its namesake Sinclair refinery.

Pat MaioMay 13, 2024

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