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Snowpack isn’t what it used to be. Severe drought has set in for portions of western Wyoming river basins, even after decent snow years, due to factors exacerbated by climate change.
Wyoming’s wind resources, though strong, are not as prime as in some other areas of the West. Checkerboard patterns of private, state and federal land ownership can slow development, ...
Wind turbines are a familiar sight in Wyoming, where 1,340 of these 260-foot giants work to generate power, but they need ...
CHEYENNE — A bill to “Make carbon dioxide great again” and another proposing a five-year moratorium on wind and solar projects failed to make it out of Senate committees Monday. Senate File ...
In Wyoming, a plan to tax the wind. Feb 17, 2010. Updated Oct 16, 2010 1:54am MDT ... is a money-maker — at least, according to the Wyoming legislature. ...
Sixty-nine turbines that PacifiCorp placed on the landscape between Laramie and Rawlins 20 years ago churn out the same amount of power that a mere dozen turbines could produce now.