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Wyoming has a history steeped in energy and miming and it has served to create jobs, government benefit programs and fundamental infrastructure for our economic possibilities in our state. We must work to facilitate growth, balanced regulations and opportunity for utilizing resources to foment prosperity balanced with land development and...

Wyoming has a history steeped in energy and miming and it has served to create jobs, government benefit programs and fundamental infrastructure for our economic possibilities in our state. We must work to facilitate growth, balanced regulations and opportunity for utilizing resources to foment prosperity balanced with land development and respect for the environment.

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Facts Over Fear: A Climate Reality Check with Gregory Wrightstone - Episode 061


In this episode, we tackle the controversial subject of climate change with Gregory Wrightstone, the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition. Join us as we challenge commonly held beliefs and examine the science behind climate skepticism.  In this candid interview, Gregory Wrightstone sheds light on the mission of the CO2 Coalition, a leading ...
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An Eye on Rock Springs - Eye on the Issues - Episode 023


 In this episode, we are joined by Rock Springs Mayor Max Mickelson and City Council President Rob Zotti. We hear about the vital economic diversification work in their community as Wyoming's energy industry continues to struggle. Plus, as families and communities further notice increased drug use across Wyoming, we hear about Rock Springs's c...
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Don’t Wait Until You Get to the Checkout Counter-- Nuclear Is Expensive

by Susan Gore Nuclear energy is three times more costly than combined cycle energy (natural gas plus steam). Roughly, if a monthly household electric bill were $85 for natural gas energy, the bill would be about $255 for nuclear reactor energy. Coal power is less expensive than nuclear power and considerably more expensive than the market winner, n...
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Natrium Nuclear Illusions Cause Formidable Mistakes

by Susan Gore An illusion occurs when something is accepted as real when it is not real. A mirage is an optical illusion. One sees what appears to be water where no water exists. Mirages hover over hot pavements and the hot ground of deserts. An old fable tells of a desert traveler who sets out alone on a faint path leading to an oasis. Hours later...
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Who Pays for a Fuel Tax Increase in Wyoming?

Philip Baron, MBA At the Joint Revenue Committee meeting in July 2019, Wyoming lawmakers were presented draft legislation to increase the state fuel tax by 3 cents per gallon. According to the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WyDot), this tax would bring in $20 million a year. WyDot would receive 67% of this revenue, about $13.4 million, and t...
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Wind Tax in Wyoming

By Philip Baron, MBA Decreased mineral tax revenue has led Wyoming lawmakers to consider raising the tax on wind energy from $1 a Megawatt Hour to $5 a Megawatt Hour. Wyoming is the only state that has a true "Wind Tax" of $1 per kilowatt-hour. When compared to other wind producing states in the West, Wyoming has had a lack of wind development sinc...
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Tax Loss from Reduced Coal Production in Wyoming


by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff The bankruptcy of Blackjewel LLC on July 1st, 2019, led to the closure of their operations in Wyoming at the Bella Ayr and Eagle Butte mines. Around 600 miners were put out of work. These mines generate around $30.4 million1 a year in severance taxes (tax on minerals taken from the ground), and about $15.2 million2 a ...
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Carbon Recapture: A Risky Subsidy

by Philip Baron It is no secret that coal provides a large chunk of the Wyoming's tax revenue. The coal industry in Wyoming was responsible for about $1 billion in tax revenue to state and local governments in 2013, according to the Wyoming Mining Association. This revenue has been shrinking since 2015 with the declining demand for coal. Coal is un...
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Wyoming and it’s over-regulated Coal Power Plants


by Philip Baron The State of Wyoming has a new law on the books that will obligate electric, public utilities who are not cooperatives, to purchase coal-generated electricity. The law also limits the rate of recovery costs for the purchaser of the retired plant. Cost recovery is the costs to regain the value of an expense, usually done as the depre...
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Clean Power Plan Status in Wyoming

We won. The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will not spend any money on the Clean Power Plan (CPP) until the Supreme Court's stay on the CCP is lifted, if ever. Here, for the terminally curious, is the longer version. Wyoming has an extremely short budget session, 20 working days. To work within that, the budget bill is done as a "mirror ...
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Cheyenne, WY 82009

Phone: (307) 632-7020