THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE HAS INDICATED IT INTENDS TO REVERSE COURSE on a previous decision to lease 44,000 acres in the Wyoming Range for oil and gas development. The federal agency on Thursday released a draft of its long-awaited updated analysis of contested oil and gas leases on the eastern front of the Wyoming Range [...]

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By Lisa McGee THE SHOSHONE NATIONAL FOREST could approve, in the coming months, a decade-old application to drill for oil near Dubois, Wyoming. If the project is given the green light, it would be the first well drilled on the Shoshone in more than 20 years. Because the drilling would be part of a larger [...]

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WYOMING’S NEXT ENERGY BOOM, in the form of industrial-scale wind farms, might already be here. And the sheer volume of new applications for Wyoming wind projects has taken most observers by surprise. There have been about 100 applications for potential wind farms on federal land, alone, since 2002—and most of those have come in the [...]

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WITH THE AIM OF BRINGING HEALTH BENEFITS to millions of Americans, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new smog standards on Thursday. The new standards would replace Bush-era rules that experts agree are inadequate to protect people from potentially dangerous air pollution. The standards would be the strictest to date, and would be in line with [...]

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Photo by Linda Baker U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR KEN SALAZAR on Wednesday announced major reforms to the way the federal government manages oil and gas drilling on federal lands. The announcement immediately won guarded praise from conservation groups, including the Wyoming Outdoor Council. Citing a need to improve “certainty and order” in oil and [...]

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