Golden eagle, photo by Martin Mecnarowski ‘These numbers can add up alarmingly fast’ By Sophie Osborn As industrial-scale wind energy development has expanded in Wyoming, observers have grown increasingly concerned about potential impacts to our wildlife. Over the last few years, many Wyomingites have worked diligently to protect the iconic greater sage-grouse from this latest […]

Check out this video slideshow of incredible Wyoming images from the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2011 calendar, featuring both professional and amateur photographers. Other posts you might want to see: Enter the Wyoming Outdoor Council photo contest Media Release: Obama administration should stick to its guns

Well, this music video has some answers. . . From PBS.org’s Need to Know page, Brianna Lee writes: . . . The students of New York University’s Studio 20, a journalism course that focuses on blending reporting with new media, collaborated with the investigative unit ProPublica to create a new kind of explainer to introduce […]

ON JUNE 8, E&E TV HOSTED A DISCUSSION, MODERATED by reporter Monica Trauzzi, as part of a special report on the “shifting economics of coal.” The participants were Steve Miller of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity; Bill McCollum of the Tennessee Valley Authority; Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.; Reps. Colleen Hanabusa, D-Hawaii, Bill […]

Rick Dunn describes the historical geology and native habitat of the 15 Mile Basin during a group hike through the badlands earlier this month. The Wyoming Outdoor Council helped organize and lead the outing. Photo by Jamie Wolf. Billings Gazette Reports: Conservationists Eye 15 Mile Basin for Protection By MARTIN KIDSTON Gazette Wyoming Bureau? Story […]

Sinclair Refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming. Photo by Scott Kane.   Casper Star-Tribune reports: $5.4 million settlement for Sinclair Refinery violations By JEREMY FUGLEBERG Star-Tribune energy reporter The owner of an oil refinery near Rawlins with a raft of pollution problems in recent years has agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement with state regulators regarding a 2010 […]

Image courtesy of Gasland the movie. Click here to see the Gasland website.   By Steve Jones ON MAY 9, A STUDY CONDUCTED BY FOUR SCIENTISTS FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY determined that natural gas, found in residents’ drinking water wells in New York and Pennsylvania, was probably coming from shale gas drilling operations located close to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2011 Contact: Bruce Pendery, Wyoming Outdoor Council, 435-752-2111; 435-760-6217 bruce@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Wyoming Outdoor Council calls for Obama to stand up to energy lobby Administration is backing away from ‘wild lands’ policy Photo by Jeff Vanuga LANDER, Wyo. — The Obama administration is backing away from a plan to make a small […]

Nighttime flaring on a gas field near Pinedale, Wyoming in 2009. Photo by Linda Baker. ‘We want clean air’ By CAT URBIGKIT Star-Tribune correspondent PINEDALE — Sublette County residents who say they suffered health problems from ground-level ozone pollution this winter are demanding more action be taken to combat the problem. Isabel Rucker, a Pinedale […]

Image courtesy of Gasland the movie. Click here to see the Gasland website. Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, May 17, 2011, 1:14 p.m. For years the natural gas drilling industry has decried the lack of data that could prove—or disprove—that drilling can […]