royalty rates

Wyoming is set to lose about $50 million a year because of new federal breaks for the coal industry. This has state lawmakers looking for ways to recoup the revenue loss.

Things are looking good for the coal industry based on the newly signed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” But it’s not as straightforward for Wyoming’s revenues.

A new study shows that oil and gas companies would have paid billions of dollars more to the federal government had royalty rates been set at higher levels nine years ago.

The Biden administration is considering an increase in royalty rates on oil, gas and coal development on public lands for the first time in more than a...

On March 30, Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and Sen. Mike Enzi led 10 other U.S. Senate signatories in a request for the U.S. Department of the Interior to…