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Laramie High School Competes in Two More State Championships It’s another state championship weekend for Laramie High School student-athletes with girls’ indoor track and alpine skiing ending their season. Laramie will take nine girls to the indoor track championships on Saturday in Gillette. They have three competing in individual events, while the other six are part of two relays that qualified. One relay, the 4x200, is a replacement for a team that was qualified but had to drop out. Head coach Greg Schabron said they learned last week at boys’ state it is different in Gillette. “He...

March 4, 2021 The University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has reviewed the impact of President Joe Biden’s temporary moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands, finding significant potential impacts on Wyoming oil and gas production, access to existing and future reserves, as well as state revenue. EORI says its analysis of the federal lease moratorium on Wyoming’s conventional oil reserves is stark due to the fact that the federal government owns 68 percent of the federal minerals in the state. The federal lease moratorium will impact 75 percent of Wyo...

President Joe Biden’s Jan. 27 order to pause oil and gas leasing on federal lands hit Wyoming on Friday as the BLM postponed the auction of 383 parcels covering almost half a million acres. The leasing pause will enable a review that’s part of an all-government fight against “a profound climate crisis” exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels, Biden’s order states. The BLM had scheduled the first-quarter 2021 sale of development rights on 476,506 acres for March 15 after deciding the sale would not “significantly affect the rate of change” in the environment. The agency did no...

406 views Only a day after taking office, the new Biden administration announced a temporary suspension of new drilling permits on federal land and foreshadowed further efforts to place a moratorium on leasing. Though not unexpected, the move is a shot across the bow for energy producers across the country, and particularly in states with prolific federal lands development like New Mexico. Acting Secretary of the Interior Scott de la Vega issued Secretarial Order No. 3395 that temporarily suspends delegations of authority regarding leasing and permitting on federal lands, with a significantly...

(Shutterstock) CASPER, Wyo — Wyoming’s Governor and Congressional leaders weighed in last week on the Biden administration’s 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters. Department of the Interior Acting Secretary Scott de la Vega signed the order on Wednesday. Governor Mark Gordon Thursday called the ban  “unnecessary, punitive and contrary to President Biden’s pledge to unify our nation and get people back to work.” “These types of federal actions threaten the ability of Wyoming’s energy industries to operate in a normal fashi...