Read the full story here. CHEYENNE — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it has nearly cleared a backlog of more than 1,500 unissued oil and gas leases in Wyoming dating back more than two years. Since last summer, the BLM has issued 1,109 leases and decided to hold off on 222 others. It [...]

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by Environment & Energy Daily on March 29, 2011 Read the full story here. By Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Excerpt: The oil and gas industry has nearly 7,200 permits to drill on public lands that it has yet to use, according to Bureau of Land Management data obtained by Greenwire. The unused, but still valid, [...]

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Photo by Daveeza Applying the lessons to Wyoming By Steve Jones THE EARTHQUAKE AND NUCLEAR DISASTER IN JAPAN may have its repercussions here in Wyoming. Whether a dampened enthusiasm for nuclear power will ultimately decrease the demand for and the price of uranium remains to be seen. But we can all learn some important lessons [...]

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THE WIND RIVER BASIN BOUNDS the southeastern edge of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and is one of the richest wildlife areas remaining in the Northern Rockies. Its public lands contain some of America’s finest wildlife habitats, intact historic trails, dramatic open spaces, and wildlands. These priceless values remain because development here has been relatively minimal [...]

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Calling all facebook users By Jamie Wolf YOU CAN HELP US ADVANCE our reputation and achieve our mission by increasing our presence in the social networking world of facebook. As I write this, 346 people on facebook currently “like” the Wyoming Outdoor Council. Considering that we have 1,400 members, and many of them are on [...]

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See excerpts below. Click here or on the image for the full story. by Dustin Bleizeffer on March 15, 2011 Excerpt 1: Earlier this week, the call for keeping a cool head over the still unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan seemed equally as loud as the call for alarm. For good reason, nations are not [...]

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From the New York Times. Read the story here. By JOHN M. BRODER and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF Published: March 16, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first national standard for emissions of mercury and other toxins from coal-burning power plants on Wednesday, a rule that could lead to the early closing of [...]

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by Environment & Energy Daily on March 15, 2011 Reprinted in full here with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net. By Scott Streater, E&E reporter A voluntary agreement by a Houston-based energy company to scale back a drilling project in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and win public support for the proposal appears to [...]

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By Richard Garrett and Steve Jones ON MARCH 8, THE WYOMING OIL AND GAS COMMISSION fined Ciris Energy $1,500 for injecting several chemicals—some of which are known to cause cancer—into coalbed methane wells in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Ciris had already been fined more than $25,000 by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for the [...]

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