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 […]

Click on the image to go to the video. A must-see discussion from Platts Commodity Pulse: Richard Swann, David Jones and Henry Edwardes-Evans discuss the rate of progress for wind, solar and other renewable sources towards the holy grail of “grid parity.” Intelligent and informative.     Other posts you might want to see: Wyoming […]

Check out this thorough report from Wyoming Public Radio, which aired on Open Spaces, by clicking here or on the link below. Congress speaks out about EPA’s Pavillion report By Elizabeth Wynne Johnson Listen to the story   For background on this issue, read on: The EPA says, in a draft report, that hydraulic fracturing, […]

By Janice H. Harris Vice President of the Wyoming Outdoor Council board of directors   Each year, the Emily Stevens Book Fund, sponsored by the Wyoming Outdoor Council, invites Wyoming county libraries to select a title from a list of terrific books, all focused on natural history and the environment. This year, I thought I’d […]

Clean air in Wyoming has perhaps been taken for granted over the years. But, as unbelievable as it may seem, in the second decade of the 21st century, Wyoming is facing a smog problem. Click here or on the image of the newsletter to read the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s winter 2011 Frontline.

Click here or on the image above to read the EPA’s draft report on its investigation into water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming. Pavillion-area residents have said for years that their domestic water wells were good and clean until an oil and gas company started drilling and hydraulically fracturing or “fracking” near their homes to produce […]

Photo courtesy of Gasland From the Casper Star-Tribune: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says high levels of methane, benzene and chemicals found in two Wyoming water-monitoring wells are “of concern” and said hydraulic fracturing may be responsible. Read more here. Other posts you might want to see: EPA’s Presentation to the Pavillion Community […]

Environmental Protection Agency official Ayn Schmit included a slideshow in her presentation last week on the latest findings in the ongoing investigation into drinking water contamination in and around Pavillion, Wyoming. Click here or on the image above to view a PDF of that slideshow. Many readers will find this slideshow more accessible and more useful […]

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday presented its latest findings in the agency’s investigation into drinking water contamination in and around Pavillion, Wyoming. Area residents have said for years that their domestic water wells were good and clean until an oil and gas company started drilling and hydraulically fracturing or “fracking” near their homes to […]

Influential Study Reveals a Complicated Story By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature WYOMING GOV. MATT MEAD RECENTLY ANNOUNCED that by working with state agencies, industry, legislators, and environmental groups he intends to develop a state energy policy. The governor has pointed out, quite rightly, that absent a national […]