Wyo tilts at windmills to save coal. Let’s embrace them instead
Opinion
by 5 Comments Carbon capture technology study, other coal initiatives fail to recognize that the industry’s days of driving state’s economy are numbered.
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Gov, EPA outline plans to boost carbon capture, delay plant closures
Coal strategy based in part on new Department of Energy study that’s already panned by skeptics, utility.
The root of Wyo’s budget crisis and how to pull it
Opinion
by 7 Comments Despite a narrative that COVID-19 and energy downturn are the cause of state budget cuts, columnist Dodson writes, that’s not the entire story. A dysfunctional political system is even more to blame.
Transition in coal country: 2020 hastens reckoning
Lax fiscal policy has left states flat-footed as mining declines. So what happens when coal goes away with no promise to return?
Three weeks after Wyo made its bid, ‘radio silence’ from Oxy
Wyoming submitted its bid for Occidental Petroleum’s 1 million acres of land and 4 million mineral acres July 10. Officials haven’t heard any news, they said this week. One called the silence worrying.
