News on Wyoming

The history of geothermal heating

2010-11-29T15:40:24Z

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Why Government Investment in Current Green Energy is a Waste

2010-11-03T01:33:39Z

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Wyo. wind task force favors eminent domain limits

2010-09-30T17:00:11Z

Wyoming panel recommends limiting eminent domain powers for wind energy developments

Private companies that want to string small power lines from wind turbines to the main power grid wouldn't be able to seize land from Wyoming landowners under a recommendation made by a task force Thursday.

The Wind Energy Task Force voted 5-4 to deny the power of eminent domain to private companies building so-called collector l...

Solar wells displacing windmills on Western range

2010-07-14T00:45:18Z

Western ranchers in some remote areas replace iconic windmills with solar-powered water pumps

The pump installer toppled the old windmill in about an hour, first climbing up the wobbly 27-foot tower to stop the broken mill's whirling blade and then pulling the underground pipe to make way for a new solar-powered electric pump.

Iconic mechanical windmills of metal and wood have pumped life into American ranches and farms for 150 years, their function withstan...

Duke Secures Financing for 300-MW of Wind Proje...

2010-10-27T06:48:22Z

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Wildlife Rulings Challenge Wind Farms

2010-10-27T06:48:08Z

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Cash for Appliances Buyer's Guide: Water heaters

2010-10-27T07:51:08Z

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Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy

2010-06-25T18:35:07Z

Wyoming debates first-of-its-kind excise tax on wind energy production on its plains, plateaus

A proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind farms to its wind-swept plains and plateaus.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal made the wind ...

Wyoming's environmental Hobson's choice: Killing wind energy or endangering birds?

2010-10-22T15:17:16Z

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Wyoming Voters Snap Up $10,000 Renewable Energy Grants Their Senators Opposed

2010-10-22T15:17:18Z

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Wyoming lawmakers recommend new wind regulations

2010-04-16T09:30:23Z

Wyo. lawmakers recommend minimum county wind regulations, expanding Industrial Siting Act

A Wyoming legislative task force has recommended tightening wind development standards at the county and state level to help establish a regulatory structure for companies pursuing wind farms here.

The Legislature created the Task Force on Wind Energy this year to study wind energy development in the state.

The group's...

2 Duke Energy wind projects now running

2010-04-16T10:02:38Z

Duke Energy says wind projects in Pennsylvania, Wyoming now online

Power company Duke Energy said Thursday that wind power projects in Wyoming and Pennsylvania are now up and running.

Duke's 70-megawatt project about 95 miles east of ...

Wyoming: Duke's Land of Wind and Money

2010-10-22T07:25:05Z

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Wind farm debate splits private property concerns

2010-04-16T10:41:09Z

Wyoming wind farm debate tests Western private property values

Richard Grant Jr.'s family has ranched Wyoming's rugged granite-and-grass hills for generations, their 123-year-old ranch dotted with reminders of their long history — an historic schoolhouse, an old red barn and the parcels of land sold away during hard times.

But it wasn't until a few years a...

Energy in Washington: Licking our Wounds for Another Fight

2010-10-26T20:11:14Z

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Sage grouse unlikely focus of Wyoming wind wars

2010-04-16T11:01:26Z

CARBON, Wyoming (Reuters) - They used to mine coal in the abandoned town of Carbon. Now this patch of southern Wyoming is a battleground in the debate over what many hope will be the clean energy source of the future: wind power.

At the heart of the dispute are plans to build a network of wind farms in the American West that conservationists fear could disrupt threatened ...

Wyoming Deficit Commission

2010-12-08T14:04:25Z

Co-chair of the National Bipartisan Commission on Budget Reform and Fiscal Responsibility, Alan Simpson speaks during a national debt forum Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, in Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP Photo/The <...

Indian Voting Rights

2010-12-02T10:33:44Z

This Oct. 4, 2010 photo shows three of the five American Indian plaintiffs, from left, Pete Calhoun, Patricia Bergie and Gary Collins standing outside their lawyers' office in Lander, Wyo. Since 2005, the Grand Teton National Park spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs standing on land the state of Wyoming owns inside Grand Teton National Park. Gov. Dave Freudenthal responded favorably Friday Nov. 5, 2010 to an

Power Outage Nuclear Missiles

2010-10-26T21:02:04Z

FILE - This May 13, 2005, file photo, shows three types of missiles that flank the main gate of F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. An equipment failure disrupted communication between 50 nuclear missiles and the launch control center at the base on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Robert W. Black)

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Utah Wyoming Football

2010-10-16T20:31:56Z

Wyoming quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels (12) pitches the ball to running back Alvester Alexander (32) during first-half NCAA college football game action against Utah, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010, at