Powder River Breaks Newsletter Oct – Dec 2024

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WATER QUALITY EXPERTS URGE PROTECTION FROM E.COLI IN WYOMING WATERS Jill Morrison Powder River Member Over the past three years the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) has been engaged in a process to revise Wyoming’s water quality regulations and the rules governing the permitted discharges to Wyoming’s streams and rivers. Pow- der River has […]

Powder River Breaks Newsletter, Jul – Sep 2024

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Jul-Sep 2024, Volume 52, Number 4 In a precedent-setting decision issued on August 30th, the Wy­oming Supreme Court struck down High Plains Power’s policy to reducing the financial benefit of having solar panels. Not wanting the precedent of High Plains Power’s action to cut by approximately 80 percent the compensation paid to rooftop solar owners […]

Powder River March-April 2024 BREAKS

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On February 12, the Department of the Interior announced a finalized rule reforming the Bureau of Land Management’s onshore oil and gas leasing program. Readers may recall this rule was proposed last spring. Powder River members engaged diligently throughout the rulemaking process to ensure quick pas-sage and strong reforms. The rule makes long overdue changes […]