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Gov. Mark “King Coal” Gordon to receive $1 million annual Wyoming coal marketing budget
The program won’t be enough to impact global markets, but it will help distract state residents from the fact that there is no plan to transition Wyoming away from dependence on a dying industry.

Lawmakers seek a new route to "the Orient" for Wyoming's "green coal"
A bill would give a tax break to coal companies who ship their coal from Wyoming to Asia through ports in Canada and Mexico.

Wyoming House kills bill to create new school funding source, will instead spend state savings
The House declined to hold an introductory vote on a proposed corporate income tax that would have generated tens of millions of dollars each year for Wyoming schools.

FIVE FACTS: The National Corporate Profit Recapture Act
There’s a lot of hype, misinformation, and outright lies surrounding a proposed corporate income tax in Wyoming. Here are five facts you need to understand.

Revenue Committee to consider non-tax proposal to bring hundreds of millions of public dollars to Wyoming
A bill to expand Medicaid would help close the state’s sizeable budget shortfall (and it would help poor people get healthcare, too).

Wyoming’s woeful response to coal’s collapse
As the coal industry falters, costing Wyoming hundreds of millions of dollars per year in lost revenues, state leaders struggle to act.

Federal regulations created Wyoming's coal industry
Wyoming politicians whine about the federal “War On Coal.” But no one was buying the Powder River Basin’s low-sulfur product until the Clean Air Act made it more affordable than its competitors.

Rod Miller explains Wyoming coal’s long, slow death [VIDEO]
Hell yes, there's a War on Coal. It's been going on a lot longer than you think it has. And coal's enemies are not who or what you think they are.

What Wyoming can learn about coal from the collapse of the fur trade
When the world switched from beaver-skin hats to silk hats in the 1800s, the fur trade plummeted. Instead of doubling down on pelts, smart fur-bearing states developed new industries.

Climate change creeps into Wyo Legislature tax reform talks
The Revenue Committee’s co-chair asked tax reform opponents: What happens if Wyoming continues to depend on revenues from carbon-based minerals while the rest of the world moves away from them?