Court orders Trump administration to disregard energy industry-stacked Royalty Policy Committee recommendations. On August 13, WORC’s lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s Royalty Policy Committee (RPC) received a favorable decision in federal court. The judge ruled that the Department of the … Continued
As coal markets decline, it’s time for rural communities to take control of their futures and create back-up plans. Reprinted from the Dakota Resource Council blog. Another company has left its coal workers hung out to dry. Coal companies in … Continued
Colorado co-op members take on Tri-State Generation and Transmission to gain access to cheaper local and renewable power generation. By Joel Dyar of Western Colorado Alliance for Community Action. 1.3 million rural consumers across Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Nebraska … Continued
DRC members describe how regulation really gets done in North Dakota and why the status quo needs to change. By Justin Nobel for DeSmog. Originally posted on DeSmog. In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, … Continued
Northern Plains Resource Council members are committed to the long game on Keystone XL. Adapted from Northern Plains Resource Council’s newsletter. One reason that Northern Plains has been successful for almost a half century is because they play the long … Continued
Wyoming Solar Energy Association Forms as State’s First Solar Trade Organization. Written by Powder River Basin Resource Council. As costs for installing solar have dropped during the past decades (around 70%, in fact), Wyoming solar installs have increased accordingly. In … Continued
Corporate Ag Lawsuit Restrictions protect factory farms by making it harder or impossible to challenge them in court—and one is coming to a legislature near you. Kristi Mogen and her family fled their home in Wyoming after and oil and … Continued
As wind and solar build momentum in the marketplace, WORC groups push legislation that keeps clean energy competitive and fight bills that unfairly hinder it. Across our region, state legislatures are facing the coming clean energy future – and WORC … Continued
Northern Plains member Steve Charter testifies before the US House on the impacts of a mining program built for another era. On July 11th, the House Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on “The Future of the … Continued
The time has come for Wyoming to rise to the occasion and address the truth about the declining coal industry. Wyoming must step up to help Wyoming’s coal communities transition to a new future. The devastating impact to coal miners and the community of Gillette with the abandonment and hollowing out of the Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte coal mines by an unscrupulous operator must be addressed.