'Drilling for investors' on public lands without oil or gas

After 320,000 acres in northern Arizona were nominated for oil and gas leasing, where experts say no oil or gas exists, a public lands mystery began.

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Lummis family could cash in on Microsoft data center expansion through Cheyenne land sales - WyoFile

The family of Wyoming’s retiring junior senator, who has supported tech innovation, owns thousands of acres targeted by Microsoft for its planned expansion.

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Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard

Your local anti-AI organizers is probably not a CCP plant.

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Feds order Flaming Gorge drop to save imperiled Lake Powell from potential structural failure - WyoFile

Record-breaking heat and historically low snowpack have reduced water storage on the Colorado River system to 36%, officials say.

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Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon won’t seek a third term. He won’t rule out running for other offices, either. - WyoFile

The two-term Republican governor has been tight-lipped about what he plans to do next. He ruled out a third term Thursday.

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Wyoming communities want time to consider embracing nuclear energy, as feds rush to expand industry - WyoFile

Wyoming is recruiting nuclear energy companies, while many communities feel rushed, particularly regarding high-level radioactive waste storage.

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Authorities order evacuation near F.E. Warren Air Force Base - WyoFile

Authorities in Laramie County ordered the evacuation of residents living near F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne on Thursday morning. A notice sent

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Don’t mention climate: Trump creates "beyond absurd" situation at world finance summit

The Iran crisis "is a huge opportunity" to move away from fossil fuels, one leader notes—and it would be "tragic" to waste it.

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Wyoming electric utility dumps wind and solar in long-term planning - WyoFile

One of the key driving forces behind the expansion of wind turbines in Wyoming is gutting plans for future renewable energy projects. Rocky Mountain

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‘It's incredibly bad’: No end in sight to Colorado River water crisis - WyoFile

Emergency drawdown of Flaming Gorge is imminent, officials say. The water situation is crashing so rapidly that authorities can't confidently track the extent of it.

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Southwestern Wyoming, other upper Colorado River Basin states, prepare for water shortages - WyoFile

The historically warm and dry winter also will require a significant extra release of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir.

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How much more wind energy might Wyoming see? It's complicated. - WyoFile

Entering election season, some Wyoming candidates are embracing President Donald Trump's hard-line opposition to wind energy, which he has described as "a

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Wyoming’s Barrasso, Lummis and Hageman silent on Trump’s threat that a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran deal isn’t reached - WyoFile

The federal delegation is mum on the president’s suggestion that an entire country could be wiped off the map.

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Coal company touting massive 'rare earth' mineral discovery in Wyoming faces shareholder lawsuit - WyoFile

Plaintiff alleges shareholders were misled about progress at Ramaco Resources' Brook Mine outside Sheridan.

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These maps show exactly where the West might burn this summer

Amid drought and heat waves, April’s national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.

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Regulators seek public input for massive Montana-Wyoming oil pipeline proposal - WyoFile

The Wyoming-based developer, Bridger Pipeline Expansion, has had several pipeline breaks and spills in the past.

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Sudan's Journalists Risk Everything to Cover a War the World Ignores - Nieman Reports

Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.

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Opinion | A trainload of frogs

As Wyoming and the West weather another stretch of drought, columnist Rod Miller remembers his granddad’s creative solution for watering dry ground.

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Two southwest Wyoming towns brace for water restrictions - WyoFile

Mountain View and Lyman prepare residents for cuts while holding out hope for spring snow.

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Amid 'dire situation' for Colorado River Basin, headwater states say they can't cut water they don't have - WyoFile

Under pressure to strike a compromise on water cuts, and amid talk of litigation, upper-basin states like Wyoming claim the West's climate-fueled drought limits what they can offer.

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ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler

A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

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Amid 'dire situation' for Colorado River Basin, headwater states say they can't cut water they don't have - WyoFile

Under pressure to strike a compromise on water cuts, and amid talk of litigation, upper-basin states like Wyoming claim the West's climate-fueled drought limits what they can offer.

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High temps, dry conditions and blustery winds likely to bring more precautionary power outages - WyoFile

Wary of wildfires, along with litigation and higher insurance premiums, utilities are preemptively "de-energizing" power lines.

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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...

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Momentum builds to reform Wyoming Public Records Act - WyoFile

Although a draft bill failed to advance, lawmakers and stakeholders plan to keep working on a compromise for 2027.

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Union workers at Wyoming trona mine reach $800K settlement - WyoFile

Union representative hails new owners for renewed cooperation, including resolution of a yearslong overtime dispute.

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Wartime oil spike likely portends more bad than good for oil-rich Wyoming - WyoFile

Broader economic downsides are more certain than oil revenue gains, according to one Wyoming economist.

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Opinion | Too many people are struggling without health insurance. There’s an obvious solution.

With everyone in the same boat, why, columnist David Romtvedt wonders, haven’t we insisted on a national health care system?

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Public payroll deductions for union fees stand after House fails to override Gov. Gordon's veto - WyoFile

The measure would have barred public employers from offering voluntary payroll deductions for specific public worker unions, including a teachers' union that has taken the Legislature to court.

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