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Build Begins on Wyoming-to-California Power Line Amid Growing Wind Power Concern
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Fred McLaughlin, director of the Center for Economic Geology Research at the University of Wyoming, stands near one of two wells drilled near the Dry Fork Station coal-fired power plant outside Gillette, Wyo., on June 14, 2022. McLaughlin and other researchers are studying whether formations as deep as 10,000 feet can be used to store the power plant’s carbon dioxide emissions.
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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, taillights trace the path of a motor vehicle at the Naughton Power Plant, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. While the power plant will be closed in 2025, Bill Gates' company TerraPower announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
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In Tiny Wyoming Town, Bill Gates Bets Big on Nuclear Power
TerraPower is planning a nontraditional, sodium-cooled reactor.
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In this Oct. 17, 2013, file photo, a protester rides in a mock coal train as other protesters demonstrate against trains carrying coal for export moving through Washington state in Tacoma, Wash.
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This Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, shows the Eagle Butte mine just north of Gillette, Wyo. Two of the biggest U.S. coal mines have been sold, raising the possibility that miners in Wyoming could return to work after almost four months off the job. Tennessee-based Contura Energy announced Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, that Blackjewel closed Friday on the sale of the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr mines to a subsidiary of Alabama-based FM Coal.
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In this Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 photo shows warehouse technician Melissa Worden, left, and heavy equipment operator Rory Wallet, in downtown Gillette, Wyo. The shutdown of Blackjewel LLC's Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Wyoming since July 1, 2019, has added yet more uncertainty to the Powder River Basin's struggling coal economy. Both Worden and Wallet wonder if they will get their old jobs back.
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Idle Mines Portend Dark Days for Coal
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This file photo shows a wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp near Glenrock, Wyoming.
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Wind Farm Makes Same Power with Fewer Turbines
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In this April 29, 2010 file photo, a pair of coal trains idle on the tracks near Dry Fork Station, a coal-fired power plant being built by the Basin Electric Power Cooperative near Gillette, Wyo. Ten teams competing to make money from carbon dioxide pollution will share $5 million in prize money and advance to the final round of an international competition. Five of the finalists will compete to make use of actual flue gases from this Wyoming plant. The other five will compete at a gas-fired power plant in Alberta, Canada.
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International Carbon Dioxide Competition
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April 10, 2018
In this March 28, 2017 file photo, a dump truck hauls coal at Contura Energy's Eagle Butte Mine near Gillette, Wyo. A judge has ruled U.S. government officials engaged in regional-level planning must consider allowing less coal to be mined as a way to fight climate change. Friday, March 23, 2018 ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, applies to the country’s top coal-producing region, the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana.
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Judge: Less Coal Mining Must Be Considered
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Companies will no longer have to disclose the chemicals used in fracking.
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