oil and gas industry

The BLM is holding an additional oil and gas lease sale this year in an unusual move. The status quo is four annual sales, one every quarter. This one is for parcels that haven’t received bids.

The city will be monitored over the next year. This comes after a national group flagged surrounding areas for compromised air quality.

Lawmakers recently debated how much say landowners should have when companies want to build new pipelines for carbon dioxide, ultimately tipping toward industry.

The Trump administration is bringing its “Unleashing American Energy” directives to 3.6 million federal acres in southwest Wyoming. The public comment period was supposed to end Nov. 3, but the BLM extended it to Dec. 18.

The Trump administration is in the initial steps of possibly opening up wide swaths of the southwest Wyoming desert to oil and gas. But how that will work with the federal government shutdown is unclear.

Some Wyoming politicians are championing the latest federal oil and gas lease sale in the state, but others are saying money is being left on the table.

The town of Wright will have its air quality monitored for the next year or so. This comes after a national group gave the air a failing grade.

An oil company claims it’s not responsible for plugging oil wells on the Wind River Reservation and is taking that claim to federal court.

Wyoming is at the drawing board for how to reduce pollution from oil and gas production, per a federal mandate. Officials recently heard from Pinedale residents on how to localize the federal requirements. The meeting was part of a statewide information gathering tour hosted by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.

New federal rules aim to lower methane pollution, a top contributor to climate change, from oil and gas production. The industry says this could have sweeping impacts on Wyoming.