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Escalera Resources enters into letter agreement to initiate the development of GTL plant in Wyoming

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Colorado-based natural gas developer Escalera Resources Co. has entered into a letter agreement with Wyoming GTL (WYGTL) (based in Reno, Nevada) jointly to initiate the development, construction and operations of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant to be located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Escalera Resources has an 87.6%

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EPA draft findings of Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation indicate water contamination likely associated with fracking; open for public comment and independent scientific review

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Organic compounds detected in the two deep monitoring wells (purple and orange bars) during the last sampling event. Since that time, in conjunction with the state of Wyoming, the local community, and the owner of the gas field, Encana, EPA has been working to assess ground water quality and identify potential sources of contamination.

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Senators introduce bipartisan bill to boost production, use of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel

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Renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel are promising ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty trucks and airplanes. Wyoming is already a leading producer of renewable diesel and is expected to produce a lot more in the near future. Currently, outdated and unnecessary regulations are limiting the use of this fuel.

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Junkyard Find: 2001 Jeep Cherokee Classic 4x4

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Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last XJ Cherokees ever made, found in a Wyoming car graveyard last week. The XJ looked like a tough truck, suitable for hairy-chested outdoorsmen, but it drove more like a car and got impressive gas mileage as part of the bargain. Most XJs got a 4.0-liter

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Meet A Leader In Today’s Death Wish Congress

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Barrasso, a rightwing whack job from Wyoming, introduced a bill (S. 228) that would bar the federal government from implementing any law or regulation related to climate change, whether it has to do with cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions or not.

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USGS-led study finds that recent unusual snowpack declines in the Rockies may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as dominant influence

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anthropogenic warming by decadal variability.Together these events. USGS scientists, with partners at the Universities of Arizona, Washington, Wyoming, and Western Ontario, led the study that evaluated the recent declines using snowpack reconstructions from 66 tree-ring chronologies, looking back 500 to more than 1,000 years.

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The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar

Baua Electric

The updated roadmap refines the analysis in the original six states and expands to five more states – Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Under the current policy, there are at least 80 million acres of federal lands open to oil and gas development, which is 100 times the amount of public land available for solar.

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