oil and gas

"Fuel costs for gas-fired generation for the entire operational length of the project need to be clearly factored into the decision process," one co-author said.

If built, the Bridger Pipeline will transfer crude oil from Canada into Phillips County, Montana to Guernsey, Wyoming.

The oil and gas sector isn’t cheering on the abrupt surge in prices. Coal is having a shining moment. Trona is still struggling. WPR checked in with a handful of Wyoming industries about a month into the conflict.

A judge has thrown out the Converse County Oil and Gas Project over environmental concerns. The project was approved during the first Trump administration and further propelled in the last year.

One is a resolution calling on the federal government to increase the share of royalties Wyoming earns off of mining and drilling on federal lands. The other modernizes laws about subleasing state grazing land.

A slew of energy- and climate-related bills are before Wyoming lawmakers this year. Many aim to support fossil fuels.

President Trump’s nominee, Steve Pearce, is a former New Mexico congressman and Vietnam War pilot. The opposition feels he could sell off public land.

Wyoming lawmakers are thinking about future sources of electricity demand – and how it’ll be transmitted – in two bills. Both call on the Wyoming Energy Authority, a six-year old state entity that’s met previous criticism.

Some West Coast states have blocked Wyoming’s fossil fuel exports. But lawmakers are trying to get around that with new legislation.

The project was proposed by Jonah Energy and was intended to be an expansion of the current Jonah Field, which was a top producing natural gas field in the country a couple decades ago.