Adverse solar bill advances after heated subsidies debate
Measure would charge regulators with removing “subsidization” from solar reimbursement rates. Critics claim the burgeoning industry is being unfairly targeted.
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Critics: Lawmakers’ solar-bill switch ‘silenced’ public
A committee makes a last-minute switcheroo leaving 78 would-be public commenters, waiting to testify on what was advertised, holding an empty bag.
How federal giveaways to Big Coal leave ranchers and taxpayers out in the cold
Short cuts, subsidies and tax breaks helped create 7,000 jobs in the Powder River Basin. Damage to water, air and land is part of the price borne by the public, too.
King v. Burwell ruling keeps 17,000 insured in Wyoming
The Supreme Court’s ruling in King v. Burwell allows some 17,000 Wyoming residents to keep receiving federal subsidies; Barrasso disappointed in ruling.
Sweet Beets
The company that bottles Pepsi's line of soft drinks in Worland is once again using sugar — from Big Horn Basin sugar beets — in some of its products. That’s a big switch from what’s gone on in the last quarter-century, when the Admiral Beverage Corp. regularly sweetened its Pepsi line with high-fructose corn syrup hauled in on rail tankers from the Midwest, even as the factory sat surrounded by fields of sugar beets.