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Smart Grid Makes it to Wyoming

Many experts say that rising energy costs and environmental degradation require a 180-degree shift away from the flick-the-switch-and-forget-it mindset.

31Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil and Gas Industry Groups Challenge EPA’s
Final Rule on Renewable Fuel Standard

The American Petroleum Institute and the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association have filed separate legal challenges to the EPA’s final rule for the second stage of the Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2), which the federal agency released last week.

30Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Oil and Gas Commission Getting Input on Proposed Rule Changes

Doll said he plans to incorporate substantive comments into the rules before they go before the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission next month. One key issue that may be addressed is the process of hydraulic fracturing which is used extensively in gas fields throughout the state.

29Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Big Oil Seeks Gas Shale Deal in Climate Bill

Three oil majors want U.S. senators crafting the climate bill to keep the federal government from regulating shale gas drilling methods that have made vast domestic reserves accessible but have been criticized for polluting water supplies.

26Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA to Seek More Data on Emissions –
Industry to Study Proposal

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the oil and gas sector and facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to the greenhouse gas sources that are required to report their annual emissions to the government.

25Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Refinery Association Chairman Says EPA Rules Will
Freeze Investment

Valero’s Bill Klesse, also chairman of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, told the industry gathering that such regulation would increase costs for an industry already struggling with low margins and sluggish demand amid a slow economic recovery.

23Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Homes Gear Up with Renewables

The residential renewable energy program provided grants of up to $10,000 or 50 percent of project costs, whichever was less, for installing photovoltaic (solar), small wind, and ground source heat energy systems at Wyoming homes.

22Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming’s Crash Program to
Develop ‘Green’ Coal

Freudenthal took the issue one step further: Were there any circumstances under which California regulators and utilities would consider power produced by Wyoming coal to be “green” enough to sell for premium prices?

18Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Governors Seek National Power Standard
to Boost Wind Industry

Congress must set a national renewable-power standard and revamp the electric grid to help the burgeoning U.S. wind-energy industry reach its potential and compete globally, governors from 29 states said.

16Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Industry’s Challenge of Co-Existing
with Wildlife in Wyoming and Elsewhere

The problem with the Wyoming approach is that it is not based on extensive information about how wind projects impact sage grouse. “We don’t have the information about how wind affects sage grouse,” says Laurie Jodziewicz, AWEA’s manager of siting policy. “And we have little opportunity to do research because you can’t build in the core areas.”

16Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Viewpoint: Slow Down on Wind Energy

If we over-balance the electrical load on the grid with too much or too many wind turbines we may not be able to balance the electrical grid system.

15Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Developers Forging Ahead with Wyo-Colo Transmission Line

Despite slow going, a power transmission project line linking the wind fields of southeast Wyoming and Colorado’s Front Range is still being pushed by developers — New Jersey-based LS Power and the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority.

15Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Coal Plant Permit

The Powder River Basin Resource Council and Sierra Club challenged an air quality permit the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality issued for the plant in 2007, even though operators say they’ve installed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of pollution control equipment.

10Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA: No Plans for Own Carbon Trading Program

The Obama administration has no plans to set up a “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases under existing law if Congress doesn’t pass legislation doing so, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in remarks at the National Press Club in Washington.

9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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