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Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives Albert Sommers released a statement Sunday Feb. 26 saying he is focused on Wyoming solutions, not out of state influences.
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The National Park Service is behind on studying 28 potential sites to add to its system. Two of them are in the Mountain West.
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Congress invoked the Railway Labor Act, passed nearly a century ago, that forced the four remaining rail unions that had rejected the Biden Administration's brokered deal largely due to a lack of stipulations for paid time off to accept it, avoiding a nationwide strike. But a Gillette union leader indicated there are potential positives for rail unions and workers in their relationships with the the railroads.
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Greybull said it's important to her to give voters in Wyoming a choice, and she criticized Hageman’s allyship with former President Donald Trump, and their joint assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Ten new locations across the U.S. may be getting a long-distance road, gravel, or mountain biking trail thanks to proposed federal legislation.A bipartisan bill that would create the trails recently passed the House of Representatives and is headed to the Senate. It’s called the Biking on Long-Distance Trails, or BOLT, Act.
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A U.S. Congress bill focuses on infrastructure. Also, a "shared vision" statement from tribes that live in the Colorado River basin and conservation groups focuses on the environmental issues around water access and aims to give tribes a greater voice.
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Some Mountain West states – like Colorado, Utah and Wyoming – have endorsed permanent daylight saving time. But there’s a catch. States generally say that Congress has to approve it first. And they require that a handful of other states in the Mountain time zone join them.
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This week, the U.S. Congress Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands heard testimony from stakeholders who are advocating for the Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act.
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Right after his passing, Michelle Hart worked with the nonprofit Grassroots Wildland Firefighters to help raise awareness on reforms.Together they helped draft the Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act. It was introduced to the U.S. Congress on October 19 by representative Joe Neguse (D-Co). Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) is a co-sponsor.
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Congress canceled a set of coal mining regulations last week, just two months after they’d been passed. President Trump signed the repeal with support…