billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
LANDER - Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Wednesday that the state attorney general's office is reviewing whether it's legal for the state to continue to compensate ranchers for livestock losses to wolves even though a federal judge has stripped the ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
LARAMIE - Coal is an important part of developing hydrogen as a fuel source, but progress must be made in capturing and storing the greenhouse gases that occur in making hydrogen from coal, speakers at an energy conference said Wednesday. Hydrogen is ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The National Park Service has formally approved an agreement it reached with Wyoming and other parties to use explosives to keep a mountain pass open to guided snowmobile access on the eastern side of Yellowstone National Park.
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
CHEYENNE - The National Park Service has formally approved an agreement it reached with Wyoming and other parties to use explosives to keep a mountain pass open to guided snowmobile access on the eastern side of Yellowstone National Park. The agreemen ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
CHEYENNE - The newly appointed Republican Party chairwoman for Wyoming, Diana Vaughan, says Gov. Dave Freudenthal's popularity is built partly on the achievements of the mainly Republican Wyoming Legislature and other elected Republicans. "The governo ...
Mount Virtus (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Rocky Mountain Right has posted a video from last night’s Bill O’Reilly Show that demonstrates Colorado Governor Bill Ritter isn’t ready for primetime: Bill Ritter recently was approached by a Fox News reporter asking a simple question about sex offender laws. Ritter proceeded to stammer, become visibly frustrated, and try to escape as soon as possible. [...]
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
CHEYENNE - Officials say heating bills could rise from 30 percent to 70 percent in Wyoming this winter. "It's pretty gruesome," said Rob Hurless, energy adviser to Gov. Dave Freudenthal. Hurless monitors energy prices, including the price of natural g ...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. - Citing a lack of federal leadership, the nation's Western governors want to draft a national energy policy they hope will influence the next presidential administration.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Citing a lack of federal leadership, the nation's Western governors want to draft a national energy policy they hope will influence the next presidential administration.
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
JACKSON - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has pledged $1 million in funds to help keep the pronghorn migration corridor open in western Wyoming. Kempthorne made the announcement Monday at the Western Governors' Conference in Jackson Hole. He s ...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
JACKSON, Wyo. - Over and over again this week, Western governors have been confronted with the issue of climate change and the threat it poses to the sustainability of the region's way of life.
NewWest.Net Politics (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
I've just gotten the chance to watch and read through the transcript from Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's appearance on Meet the Press with Tom Brokaw and I'm impressed with how many Western issues (not just wolves and guns!) got solid (as in not watered down) national air time. See the full transcript here or watch the broadcast here:
cbs4denver.com: National Politics (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Gov. Bill Ritter says presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has "great opportunity" to win in Colorado in November and predicts he will win "hands down" among Hispanic voters.
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
TETON VILLAGE - From Jackson Hole - a frequent home for some of the nation's largest herds of elk, bison and antelope - governors of several Western states agreed Sunday to push for greater focus on the migration corridors used by those animals. The W ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. -- Governors from several Western states voted Sunday to form a council that will study ways to protect wildlife habitat in the face of ever-increasing demand for energy development in their region.
