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State weighs Exxon Mobil's CO2 venting
A high-profile case regarding carbon dioxide that is vented at Exxon Mobil's Shute Creek gas plant in Lincoln County will be continued until next month.
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Lawyer criticizes eagle ruling
CHEYENNE -- A specialist in American Indian law says a federal court ruling in the case of a Wyoming man who shot a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance follows a pattern of decisions that profess respect for American Indian religion while punishing individual tribal members.
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Company plans seismic survey
ROCK SPRINGS -- Devon Energy Co. officials are proposing to conduct a three-dimensional seismic survey as part of a small, controversial exploratory drilling project near Little Mountain south of here.
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Witnesses: BIA stifles tribal self-government
WASHINGTON -- Indian tribes want to move toward more self-governance, but red tape and foot-dragging by federal agencies continuously throws a wrench in their attempts, tribal leaders testified Tuesday.
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Congress: Halt flow of oil to reserve
WASHINGTON -- Wyoming's U.S. senators Tuesday voted to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. Rep. Barbara Cubin opposed a similar measure in the House.
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Study finds lead in wild game meat
LANDER -- People who eat animals killed with lead bullets need to be concerned about lead poisoning, according to a conservation organization working to convince game hunters to switch to copper ammunition.
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Lawyer: Overturn murder conviction
CHEYENNE -- A lawyer for Kent Alan Proffit Sr., the Gillette man convicted of ordering the killing of a boy who was to testify against him in a sexual assault case, this week urged the Wyoming Supreme Court to overturn Proffit's murder conviction.
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Wyoming Briefs: Bridge damaged, road collapsed, bell rung
Coal truck damages bridge
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Feds eye surge in wind power
WASHINGTON -- Wind could provide 20 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and only slightly raising costs to consumers but requiring a vast new transmission system, a new Energy Department report shows.
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Board backs charter school denial
CHEYENNE -- The state Board of Education Monday unanimously upheld the Laramie County School District 1 board's rejection of a Cheyenne charter school application.
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Questions about uranium
Ranchers and rural residents in northeast Wyoming say they've seen the brochure on how uranium producers perform in-situ leach mining. What they don't know is how it's going to work in their neighborhood, with the soils and aquifers under their homes.
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EnCana plans split into two companies
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- Canada's biggest natural gas company says it is splitting into two separate energy companies: a fully integrated oil company and a natural gas company.
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Three vie for Game and Fish post
CHEYENNE (AP) -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced Monday that candidates from Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona make up the three finalists to become the department's new director.
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Wyoming Briefs: Manslaughter, wolf-kills, and boulders
Jury's verdict: Manslaughter RAWLINS -- A jury in Rawlins has found a man guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of another man.
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GOP House hopefuls jockey
CHEYENNE -- The television ad shows Mark Gordon, bundled up and wearing a cowboy hat, on horseback and herding cattle on a wintry day.
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Court hears uranium mine challenge
DENVER -- Federal judges expressed surprise Monday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued permits to allow a company to leach uranium out of an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in New Mexico.
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Big Horn Basin woman combined 'great dignity,' 'lightness of being'
CHEYENNE -- When Martha Healy fell ill and nearly died just before her 90th birthday, she pressed her family not to make too much fuss about her life once she was gone.
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State studies I-80 trucker tolls
CHEYENNE -- In a push to secure new highway funding sources, state transportation officials are exploring whether commercial truckers should be required to pay tolls to use Interstate 80.
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Planking the prairie
PINEDALE -- The gray sagebrush stalks pepper the space around the two yellow poles set back 100 yards from the road beneath the snow-capped Wind River Mountains in the distance.
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Feds will study water issue
Federal legislation to explore putting groundwater pumped out during oil and gas production to use was signed into law last week.
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