Energy

The Wyoming Economic Analysis Division has compiled a summary for Wyoming from the 2010 Census.

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The coal industry says the state of Wyoming has earned just over $2 billion on federal coal lease sales over the last 20 years.

Marion Loomis, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association, says Arch Coal's successful $300 million bid in the Powder River Basin earlier this month pushed the state's share of lease revenue to $2

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Gov. Matt Mead said he won't stop pushing for change in how Wyoming taxes wind energy projects despite a chilly reception to his proposals from some state legislators.

Wyoming next month will begin imposing a $1 per megawatt hour tax on wind energy production

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The University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources may affiliate with a coal-to-liquids project proposed near Medicine Bow.

Involvement with the roughly $2 billion dollar coal-to-gasoline plant, proposed by DKRW and currently up for review, would be another expansion on the academic portfolio offered at the school.

"We're having conversations with t

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The State of Wyoming has 1,100 MW of installed wind generation as of 2010 and its existing wind capacity ranks twelfth in the U.S. Yet the state ranks even higher, seventh, in potential wind capacity. The sta

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An elementary school in Casper that uses renewable energy held a dedication ceremony Thursday afternoon.

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The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing comments submitted by hundreds of individuals and groups about a proposed $2 billion high-voltage power line in Wyoming and Idaho.

The proposed Gateway West transmission line by Idaho Power Co

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