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Wyomingites both fear and cheer EPA move to slash fossil fuel, climate regulations
March 13, 2025
EPA’s new direction on climate and fossil fuel initiatives has major implications in Wyoming, where the energy industry plays critical economic role.
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Lawmakers, loggers long for Trump-driven revival of Wyoming’s dying timber industry
March 04, 2025
The Equality State’s two remaining sawmills are just barely clinging to existence, though there’s hope that policies and executive orders circumventing environmental protection could stimulate commercial cutting.
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Wyoming BLM staff, key to Trump’s ‘energy dominance,’ largely spared by Musk’s DOGE
February 28, 2025
Official figures are lacking amid an information lockdown under the new administration, but sources tell WyoFile that a small percentage of full-time employees have been let go statewide.
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Trump cuts may cost a trout-brooding, Wyoming toad-rearing federal hatchery its entire staff
February 24, 2025
A 110-year-old facility is still operating, but the federal government’s DOGE initiative has shrunk the staff to two and put the hatchery in a position that could overturn its workforce completely.
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Valentine’s Day massacre: Uncounted throng of Wyomingites fired by Trump administration
February 14, 2025
The government has yet to disclose how many lost their jobs, despite repeated inquiries. Many of those affected, however, shared their stories, and their fears for the agencies they once served.
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Constitutional issue impedes elimination of Wyoming’s protected wildlife list
February 13, 2025
Amendment to bill initially aimed at Northern American river otters would have nixed the whole ‘archaic’ protected classification. It found support initially, then died.
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Senate cuts $70M from Legislature’s sue-the-feds war chest
January 28, 2025
Bill leaves $5 million for lawmakers to sue, independent of the executive branch, against federal conservation policies seen as detrimental to Wyoming. “What’s changed for me, frankly, is the President of the United States,” Sen. John Kolb, a Republican from Rock Springs.
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Electricity sales tax cut advances, to delight of industry and chagrin of Wyoming towns and counties
January 27, 2025
Lawmakers backing the bill say it only makes sense if the Legislature passes another measure to increase electricity taxes on utilities and, potentially, their out-of-state customers.
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Wyoming county clerks push back against Gray’s ballot drop box stance
January 23, 2025
As lawmakers considered a bill to ban ballot drop boxes, county clerks stood by the security of Wyoming’s elections and a decades-long interpretation of state law.
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Wyoming locks up kids at the highest rates in the nation. Bill to help understand why died without debate.
January 22, 2025
State has been working for years to better track juvenile justice issues. Last week a key fix to expand access to critical data was voted down by freshman lawmakers.
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Fresh off Kelly Parcel sale, lawmakers seek to bar similar federal land deals
January 16, 2025
A young Republican rancher from Big Horn County wants to ensure land deals in Wyoming do not increase the federal government’s share of ownership.
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After decades of political maneuvering, Grand Teton buys Wyoming’s Kelly Parcel today
December 30, 2024
The federal government bought the 640-acre section for $100 million, a transaction that will see the wildlife-rich property that lawmakers had proposed for commercial development, instead preserved as part of Grand Teton National Park.
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Complaint asks governor to remove Weston County Clerk from office
December 27, 2024
The official request from eight qualified electors follows a general election error that resulted in an initial miscount and drew fierce criticism.
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Wyoming lawmakers pursue transgender bathroom, sports restrictions in 2025 session
December 06, 2024
The proposed measures reflect the Legislature’s rightward turn in this year’s election and conservative concern over the issue.
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Federal sage grouse plans panned by Wyoming and environmentalists, praised by others
November 12, 2024
Policies are aimed at strengthening protections for Bureau of Land Management habitat, but the state intends to contest the new plans in the waning months of the grouse-friendly Biden administration.
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