Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Landowners Fear Nearby Injection Wells as Oil Field Expands

From the Casper Star-Tribune Wayne and Myrna Brautigam moved up to Wyoming for retirement when Fort Collins started to get too busy. They bought a 10-acre plot in the prairie and built a home and a shop where Wayne could work on cars. It’s about 20 minutes outside of Cheyenne in a subdivision with wheat fields on its edges and

Downer for Wyoming Coal: Wisconsin Coal-Burning Baseload Plant, Customer to 5 PRB Mines, May Retire Early

From the Casper Star-Tribune Another power plant that buys Wyoming’s coal is facing early retirement, the latest in the trend of disappearing customers for Powder River Basin coal. Wisconsin’s largest utility, We Energies, could shut down the Pleasant Prairie coal plant in southeastern Wisconsin as early as next year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday. Last year, the plant bought coal