The Wyoming Outdoor Council is encouraged that Wyoming’s leaders seem ready to have the conversation about baseline water testing. “We believe that when legislators, regulators, and decision makers have had a chance to consider the facts and to hear the arguments for and against required baseline water testing in Wyoming, they’ll conclude, as we have, […]
FIELD NOTES
Why We’re Seeking Fracking Chemical Information
By Steve Jones Disclosure is in the public interest THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL, ALONG WITH THE POWDER RIVER BASIN RESOURCE COUNCIL, Earthworks, and the watchdog group OMB Watch, filed suit on Friday, asking a court to require Wyoming to disclose information about chemicals used during the oil and gas development process known as hydraulic […]
Groups seek better disclosure of fracking chemicals in Wyoming
You can read the entire article at Reuters here. Excerpt: By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho, March 26 (Reuters) – Environmental groups are asking a state court to force Wyoming to provide a more complete list of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling technique vital to natural gas and oil production […]
Wyoming State Legislative wrap-up
By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature Signs of spring, even indoors While others may have been looking outdoors for signs of spring, those of us who have been largely confined (at least during daylight hours) to the state’s capitol building for the last four weeks in Cheyenne have […]
Final Week: The Legislature Has Important Work to Do
By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature Permits, wildlife, and invasive species Today, March 5, marks the beginning of the last week of Wyoming’s 2012 legislative session and there are still important bills under consideration and issues to resolve. It’s going to be a very eventful week in the […]
Another nail in the coffin for the Flaming Gorge pipeline?
By Steve Jones THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TODAY REJECTED COLORADO entrepreneur Aaron Million’s latest application to build a water pipeline from Flaming Gorge reservoir and the Green River up over the Continental Divide, across Wyoming, and down into Front Range Colorado. This decision to dismiss Mr. Million’s preliminary application is great news, from the Wyoming Outdoor […]
In a short budget session, still some environment-related bills
By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature It’s Always a Mixed Bag at the Capitol As I write this it’s 2 p.m., Friday, February 17 at the Wyoming State Capitol, which means the 61st session of the State Legislature has just about finished up its first week of the […]
Support the tax incentive for small renewable energy
By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature ARE YOU ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER? Please pass this message along to your friends and followers. Please help us support House Bill 79. The Wyoming Outdoor Council is working with a broad coalition of organizations, trade groups, and contractors to generate support […]
Spectacular Wyoming photos, winter 2011 — 2012
Check out these recent shots of beautiful Wyoming, taken by Wyoming Outdoor Council staff and board members. Other posts you might want to see: Winter Frontline 2011, the Wyoming Outdoor Council Newsletter Photos: Ride the Red 2011 Adobe Town in Spring: Photographs Photos from our Little Mountain field trip Winners of the Wyoming Outdoor […]
Watch: NASA video charts modern global warming
This description comes from onearth.org: From our friends at NASA comes this amazing 26-second video, depicting how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1880. That year is what scientists call the beginning of the “modern record.” You’ll note an acceleration of those temperatures in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production […]