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Wyoming's governor spoke at a regional convention geared toward energy and mineral policy. He didn't mince words, calling some of the state Freedom Caucus’s efforts around the industry "dumb.”

Federal cuts brought a new study on mine worker safety to a screeching halt. Southwest Wyoming trona miners were hoping it’d fill the gaps in what’s otherwise a limited set of data.

Wyoming’s new solution for where to dump old wind turbine blades can proceed after being frozen by the Trump administration for nearly two months.

The Kemmerer coal mine is laying off 28 workers. City officials hope other, incoming energy projects can absorb them.

A bill to repeal Wyoming’s carbon capture laws passed out of a House committee, despite public comment on it ending with no vote last week. If passed, the bill will undo laws that the governor’s office says have helped keep Wyoming coal plants alive.

An effort to ban new large wind or solar projects in Wyoming until 2030 has failed amid large public pushback. Many testified it would put a ‘closed for business’ sign on Wyoming.

Two bills that would’ve fundamentally changed Wyoming’s energy strategy have failed. Both would’ve rolled back Wyoming’s carbon capture laws in hopes of saving ratepayers money and propping up Wyoming’s coal industry. But one of the bills went a step further, pushing back on climate science.

There's a change of tone, both statewide and nationally, in regards to climate and energy. President Trump declared a National Energy Emergency that seeks to sidestep climate protections and prop up the fossil fuel industry. In Wyoming, far-right lawmakers are denying climate change science through a ‘make carbon dioxide great again’ bill. We hear a debrief from Wyoming Public Radio’s energy reporter.

Wyoming is joining Montana in a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management. The states say their concerns weren’t addressed in the federal agency’s latest decision to end new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin.

National data show coal production continues to decline, and recent updates with projects in southwest Wyoming reflect that. The Naughton Power Plant is in the early stages of the process, and half of the Jim Bridger Power Plant made the transition this year.