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In 2013, a DEQ feasibility study estimated that it would cost Wyoming at least $4.5 million and 1o new staff to take over regulation of uranium and thorium mining. [33] The mining industry has pushed the state to take over, saying the Nuclear Regulatory Commission charges too much and moves too slowly. [33]
The Wyoming Public Service Commission is a public utilities commission, a quasi-judicial tribunal, which regulates natural gas, electric, telecommunications, water, and pipeline services in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
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Wyoming is a resource rich state with a history of boom and bust cycles. The 1970s energy crisis initiated a coal-mining boom in Wyoming that lasted until the early 80's. The state's latest energy boom (1995–2010) is due to increased development in oil and natural gas production as well as further growth in the coal-mining industry.
The Yellowstone River Compact is an interstate compact that was entered into by Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming and ratified in 1950 for the purpose of providing for an equitable division and apportionment of the waters of the Yellowstone River and its tributaries, encouraging mutually beneficial development and use of the Yellowstone River Basin's waters, and furthering intergovernment ...
Buffalo Bill Dam with Shoshone Powerplant at right. The Shoshone Project is an irrigation project in the U.S. state of Wyoming.The project provides irrigation for approximately 107,000 acres (430 km 2) of crops in the Big Horn Basin, fulfilling the vision of local resident and developer Buffalo Bill Cody, who hoped to make the semi-arid basin into agricultural land.
Water Resources Development Act of 1976, (WRDA 1976), Pub. L. 94–587 is a public law enacted on October 22, 1976, by the Congress of the United States of America concerning various water resources and projects. [1] [2]
The 68th Wyoming Legislature is the current meeting of the Wyoming Legislature which first convened on January 14, 2025. [1] Republicans currently have supermajorities in both chambers. Composition