legislation

✍🏼 On May 8, Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2025, aimed at safeguarding firefighters, communities, and property in Wyoming and across the west from the destructive impacts of wildfires 🔥

💰 Senator Cynthia Lummis and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Michigan Representative Lisa McClain and California Representative Robert Garcia introduced the Common Cents Act, bipartisan legislation, backed by President Trump, to suspend production of the penny and save American taxpayers money.

Wyoming House Bill 0045, which removes otters from protected status, took effect after Gov. Mark Gordon signed the bill into law Feb. 24. For the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. According to Wyoming Fish and Game, the bill will have important impacts for the management of otters in the state...

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“It has been a long wait, but Wyoming is thrilled to finally see this innovative answer to the disposal needs of inert decommissioned wind turbine materials approved,” stated Todd Parfitt, Wyoming’s Director of the WDEQ.

Gordon: "Wildlife management is the responsibility and squarely within the authority and purview of the states – not the federal Government.”

Cheers erupted outside the legislative chamber in Nebraska on Thursday as the last vote was counted.

Many ranchers and farmers have successfully negotiated with wind developers and are enhancing the ability of their lands to provide income for their families

“Coal has a future in Wyoming. Thank you to the Legislature for helping to make a broader use of these funds, so we can be much more proactive in protecting our coal industries’ future,” Governor Gordon said.

Wyoming is one of just three states that haven’t enacted hate crimes legislation since Matthew Shepard was beaten and left for dead in Laramie in 1998.