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An economic development organization is denied funds for a coal research and diversification projectThe "Move Wyoming Forward" proposal was denied along with three others in Wyoming that were competing for federal Build Back Better funds from the Economic Development Administration.
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Bill Gates' company TerraPower and the utility Rocky Mountain Power have picked the Wyoming coal town of Kemmerer as the location for a $4 billion, electricity-generating nuclear reactor. Optimism is high but the technology's unproven.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects oil, gas and coal production – and C02 emissions – to rise in 2022. Extreme temperatures are partly to blame.
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An application that was submitted by Campbell County to a federal program to obtain funding for the proposed Pronghorn Industrial Park east of Gillette has been denied.
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The Bridger Coal Company is expecting to permanently shut the doors of its underground mining operation near Rock Springs as soon as Nov. 19, 2021. The closure plan has been in place since 2016.
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The Wyoming Public Service Commission (PSC) considered adopting emergency rules in order to implement a law passed in 2020. HEA 0079, "Reliable and Dispatchable Low Carbon Energy Standards," would require utilities to get a certain amount of electricity from coal plants with carbon capture attached by 2030.
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Jeff Wendland, a 31-year old man, was fatally injured while performing a dragline repair at Arch Resource's Black Thunder coal mine.
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Future of coal industry
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Americans’ fossil fuel consumption dropped 9% last year to its lowest point in three decades. It was also the nation’s largest recorded decrease in fossil fuel use.
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This year, Campbell County’s assessed valuation comes to $3.92 billion—the first time it's dropped below $4 billion since 2005. In 2020, the assessed valuation was $4.24 billion.