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Late last Friday, Wyoming and Colorado filed in federal court for a preliminary injunction to block a new hydraulic fracturing rule on public and tribal lands from taking effect later this month.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead talked about carbon capture projects when he met with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Thursday during Moniz’s attendance at an energy summit in Mead’s coal-rich state.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Wednesday promised to shield his state from economic harm caused by too much federal regulation in the energy and environmental sectors.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Thursday unveiled a state plan to establish pipeline corridors through federal lands. An application by the state has been submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to establish 1,150 miles of pipeline corridors.

Taking a page from other resource-rich states, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead said Friday that he is seeking initiatives to “add value to Wyoming’s natural resources and create jobs.” The effort will seek to attract industry to the sparsely populated, but natural resource-endowed state.

Less than two years after his predecessor resigned, Wyoming Oil and Gas Supervisor Grant Black on Monday took the same exit route, following a closed meeting of the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC).

With one of the nation’s most fossil fuel-intense state economies, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is pushing a state/private sector initiative for a new testing center at the University of Wyoming to find ways to effectively store carbon dioxide (CO2) to develop markets for carbon and enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Tuesday unveiled a four-year plan to accelerate the plugging of more than 1,200 abandoned oil and natural gas wells on state and fee lands. The proposal will be given Thursday to the state legislature’s Joint Minerals Committee, which requested a plan be presented at that meeting.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and the Wyoming Pipeline Authority (WPA) have called on FERC to reject Trailblazer Pipeline Co. LLC’s proposed revisions to its natural gas quality standards, saying they would be not only harmful to the state but the rest of the nation as well.