climate change

Governor Mead invited the president to involve Wyoming in developing strategies for energy production.

Shane Murphy, assistant professor in the UW Department of Atmospheric Science, is specifically examining the effects of black and brown carbon emitted from wildfires.

So where does climate policy go in the wake of the international agreement on greenhouse gas?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting proposed clean power plant rules to western governors as a way to deal with wildfires and floods. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy met Tuesday with western governors and emphasized that states will have flexibility in developing plans to reduce carbon output...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, a climate-science skeptic from the nation's top coal-producing state, says he could be wrong about the causes of global warming but is arguing for cleaner technology to burn coal rather than trying to eliminate its use...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for the recent harsh winter. Usually, researchers make those links years later, but this study does it in real time...

Researchers are flying over Western wildfires to sample the thick smoke they emit to study its role in cloud formation and climate.