Natural Gas Eats Into Coal's Market Share
With hotter summer temperatures in the forecast, natural gas consumption is expected to increase in coming months, and prices along with it. Electricity demand is at its highest across much of the U.S....
View ArticleCO2 Emissions From Natural Gas Surpass Coal
Carbon emissions from burning natural gas are projected to surpass emissions from coal by around 10 percent this year. It will be the first time that's happened since 1972, according to data from the...
View ArticleHead Injury Caused Worker's Death At Gas Plant
The Lincoln County coroner has determined that head trauma caused a worker's death at a natural gas processing plant in southwestern Wyoming last week. County Corner Michael Richins says 36-year-old...
View ArticleFilling In The Natural Gas Gaps
With the fracking boom ushering in cheap natural gas prices nationwide, nearly 40 states have adopted or are considering new legislation to expand gas service. Big gaps exist in rural America where...
View ArticleJonah Energy Buys Out Competitor For Control of Natural Gas Field
Jonah Energy, a Colorado-based oil and gas company, will soon own nearly 100 percent of natural gas reserves in western Wyoming — the eighth largest natural gas field in the country. The investment is...
View ArticleFederal Methane Rule Holds On
The U.S. Senate decided not to overturn the Obama era methane rule, which seeks to limit the venting and flaring of methane by oil and gas drillers on federal land. In a tight vote, three Republicans...
View ArticleMidwest School Passes Early Air Quality Tests
A Natrona County school that closed last year due to a gas leak is nearly ready to re-open. A new ventilation system has been installed and one round of air sampling tests shows encouraging results....
View ArticleWyoming School Closed By Gas Leak Ready To Reopen
It’s a sunny day outside Midwest School in northeast Natrona County as mud-swept trucks pull into a gas station across the street. Sue Green serves food inside the Big D convenience store. She’s the...
View ArticleNational Emission Standards Look To Southwestern Wyoming For Experience
At the center of the dusty Pinedale-Anticline field looking over the Wind River Range, Erika Tokarz stands on Ultra Petroleum’s Riverside 9-2 pad which is home to several wellheads. Across the road,...
View ArticleEPA Begins Clean Power Plan Rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday signed a proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan — President Obama’s signature climate change legislation. The 2015 rule aims to was meant to move the...
View ArticlePlugged, Abandoned Wells In Pavillion May Still Have Issues
Pavillion homeowner John Fenton is questioning whether abandoned wells near his home were properly addressed to eliminate contamination. The Fremont County town has been plagued since 2008 with...
View Article$20 Million Competition Down To 10 Finalists
The Integrated Test Center (ITC) in Gillette will host five finalists for the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition later this year. The 10 teams were selected this week, down from 27 in the semi-final...
View ArticleBLM Methane Rule Rewrite Faces Nearly Unanimous Opposition
A 60-day comment period came to an end Monday over a "rescission or revision" to the Methane and Waste Prevention Rule . It’s a 2016 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule intended to limit venting and...
View ArticleNatural Gas Project Moves Forward, Faces Criticism
A 3,500-well natural gas project has taken a step forward. The Bureau of Land Management published the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Jonah Energy's Normally Pressured Lance project in...
View ArticlePark County Natural Gas Customers May Be Hit With A 22-Percent Rate Increase
July 10 is the first day of the Wyoming Public Service Commission public hearing to decide whether to approve Black Hills Energy’s one-year rate hike of 22-percent on Park County residential natural...
View ArticlePark County Natural Gas Customers Will Be Hit With 22-Percent Rate Increase
Park County natural gas customers will be receiving a rate hike of 22-percent over a one-year period.
View ArticleHow Scientists Are Using Lasers To Hunt For Leaky Oil And Gas Equipment
Wyoming and Colorado are in the top ten natural gas producing states. But in those states – and across the country – a lot of that gas is escaping straight into the air. Scientists are now working to...
View ArticleWyoming's Natural Gas Could Decrease Russia's Influence In Europe
Wyoming’s lawmakers in Washington are looking for ways to decrease Russia’s influence in Europe, and they think they may be able to do it with good ole fashioned Wyoming natural resources.
View ArticleCoal Still Ahead Of Natural Gas In State By State Generation
In 2017, coal remained the most common fuel source by state percentage, leading in 18 states — a surprising fact given it’s fallen behind natural gas in overall generation across the country. A report...
View ArticleNew Federal Proposal Seeks To Roll Back Methane Regulations
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would make it easier for oil and gas companies to release methane emissions — a potent greenhouse gas – into the air. The proposal targets an Obama-era...
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