oil and gas industry

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.

Wyoming has a new way for testing emissions related to oil and gas production, and the state won an award for it.

Wyoming has sided with the oil and gas industry by moving forward with leasing a parcel of state school trust land in a crucial part of a migration route in Sublette County.

Wyoming is passing up millions of federal dollars that could go toward closing down some low producing oil and gas wells.

The federal government is nearing an almost inevitable shutdown this Sunday, and the oil and gas industry is worried.