Tag: Wyoming
Wyoming small-government conservatives revolt against GOP social agenda
Western Republicans have traditionally exhibited a libertarian bent. They like small government, genuinely small government, the kind that intrudes as little into their lives as possible. Those kind of conservatives have looked on with shock as Republican lawmakers heady with victory since November have sought as a top priority to expand government reach and draw on more taxpayer cash in a controversial bid to limit access to abortion around the country. In Wyoming, the reddest of red states, the two Republican parties are battling for the soul of the party. So far, the small government Republicans are winning there.
Pine beetle epidemic grows to more than 4 million acres in...
The U.S. Forest Service Friday released the results of new aerial mapping showing the mountain pine bark beetle epidemic raging since the mid 1990s has now consumed more than 4 million acres of pine trees in Colorado and southern Wyoming. In Colorado alone, more than 400,000 acres of trees were killed last year, mostly in the Arapaho, White River, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow and Routt national forests.
State’s oil and gas pipeline capacity rising along with scrutiny
A lack of natural gas pipeline capacity has long been cited as one of the reasons Colorado is less competitive with other states in...
In shadow of offshore disaster, growing concern over onshore drilling
The worsening Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be grabbing all the headlines lately, but several much smaller incidents in Colorado and neighboring states are...
IREA Voices touts new study on looming coal shortages
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...
Wyo. fracking contamination case eerily similar to Colorado’s Divide Creek accident
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.
EPA data strengthens call to safeguard water in Garfield County
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.
EPA: Colorado home to high number of coal-ash disposal ponds
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...
NYT editorial laments ‘fracking,’ gas drilling in Catskill Mountains
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...
Keeping Energy’s Golden Goose from Becoming a Golden Noose: Part Two
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...