August 28, 2022
It's always been the case that California has tended to drive a lot of legal developments in the country, simply due to its size and population. Current environmental trends are not an except.
We mentioned this a couple of days ago.
August 26, 2022
California will require all cars, trucks and SUV's sold in the state after 2035 to be electric or hydrogen fueled after 2035.
Some Republicans at the Federal level are threatening to take away California's ability to independently regulate automobiles in this fashion, but they lack the power at this point to really do anything about this.
Now comes news that Yosemite has banned non-refillable 1 lb propane gas cylinders for use with camp staves, and the State of California is about to.
Shoot, I use those things all the time for camp stoves.
How does this relate to the theme of this tread? Well, because I use these things all the time, and in spite of what people think, they don't make propane cylinders, or cars, for Wyoming. What California does, matters.
September 2, 2022
Wyomingites will have the highest percentage of residents in the country with student loans to be completely forgiven under President Biden's plan to do so, assuming that the plan is legal, which it likely is not. Nearly 40% of Wyomingites who received students loans stand to have them forgiven.
This is not without irony. In my view, the forgiveness should not be done as it will be inflationary, but the irony would be that this would be a Federal handout just after a primary election, which for all practical purposes determined many of the wider races, in which Wyomingites expressed a "no handout" view.
In another topic, the largest decrease in reading scores in 30 years, and the largest drop in math scores since testing has been conducted, has been experienced. This is no doubt due to the disruption in education caused by COVID-19.
September 3, 2022
The Federal District Court for Wyoming found that Federal postponement of oil and gas lease sales was legal.
September 8, 2022
OPEC is cutting production by 100,000 bbls a day, a symbolic amount really, in an effort to keep oil prices from continuing to decline.
September 11, 2022
The State gave out $6,600,000 in rent relief, funded by the Federal Government, last month.
Project Bison will commence construction in the state. It's a direct carbon removal from the air project that will remove annually the amount of carbon generated by 1.2 coal-fired power plants annually.
September 16, 2022
A nationwide railroad strike that would have gone into effect on Friday has been avoided.
September 17, 2022
Yvon Chouinard, who has a close association with Teton County, and who is the founder of Patagonia, the clothing company, is converting the shares of the company to be held in trust with the profits, approximately $100,000,000 per year, to support environmental causes.
The Treasury Department is supporting the creation of U.S. digital currency, to be backed by conventional currency.
September 18, 2022
Among the resolutions that the GOP will consider this weekend is one it will pass, providing that it will refuse to recognize those running as independents or in other parties as members of the GOP. This comes about as some extreme right wing member of the party have become candidates in third parties, and some moderates and others are running as independents.
The resolution will pass, but it won't matter. A person can make any registration of party affiliation they want for voter affiliation, right up to the polls.
September 20, 2022
In an article penned by the Mayor of Cheyenne, it was announced that Cheyenne may be getting a meat packing plant with a construction value of over $1B. The plant would be one of the largest in the United States, if constructed, and would employ 2,500 people. No other details were available.
We've often urged the construction of a plant or two of this type in the state, although on a locally owned basis. It'll be interesting to see what the details of this plant are, should it advance further.
September 21, 2022
The legislature is looking at solar panels for schools as a means of cutting infrastructure costs for the same.
October 5, 2022
OPEC is cutting production by 2M bbls per day.
October 8, 2022
October 5, 2022
OPEC is cutting production by 2M bbls per day.
This turns out to be "OPEC +" which includes not only the formal OPEC members, but additionally Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Russia, South Sudan and Sudan.
Hmmm. . . .
Russia.
And Mexico?
Well, in some ways 2M bbls/day isn't that much really, but it will cause prices to rise and that's exactly what it's designed to do.
The OPEC daily target was 44M bbls per day, but they're not meeting that now. So this is in fact more significant than it might seem.
Now, I know that some politicians from Western states in particular are going to come out with the "unleash" American energy line, but as much in that category as can realistically be done already is being done. Eventually, the US could more than make up the slack, but at a higher price per gallon pump price.
The turnover rate in state government in Wyoming has doubled from what it was a decade ago.
October 11, 2022
A law which would have fined coal mines in Montana in certain ways designed to keep them in operation were found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.
No surprise there, but this should be of note given similar proposals that have been floated in Wyoming.
October 13, 2022
The Tribune reports various mining activities can be expected to boom in southeastern Wyoming.
October 22, 2022
This year's Federal budget deficit, which should be quite frankly $0, was cut in half, which means that it's still $1.4 Trillion.
That's real progress, but not good. It's sort of like a diehard alcoholic going from one fifth of booze per day, to one fifth every two days.
October 26, 2022
Wyoming has been sponsoring a project to find other uses for coal, such as an element of building materials. A study of using it for biochar has also been underway.
Apple is requiring all of its suppliers to be carbon-neutral by 2030.
Jennifer Sey, a Democrat, and the former Chief Marketing Officer for Levis, has come out with a book claiming that wokedness has taken over corporate boardrooms.
Ryan Busse, a former executive with Kimber, the firearms' manufacturer, has published a book taking on the combat focused gun culture as it relates to the industry.
The Lancet, the famous medical journal, has published that health is at the mercy of fossil fuels.
November 11, 2022
Inflation has dropped to 7.7%
November 17, 2022
Revenue to the State of Wyoming from oil and gas lease sales is the highest it has been since 2018.
November 22, 2022
A railroad strike is looking increasingly likely.
November 23, 2022
A new Federal oil and gas leasing provision passed under the Inflation Reduction Act requires Federal agencies to offer “the lesser of a ‘sum total’ of either 2,000,000 acres or 50 percent of the acreage for which have been submitted for lease sales during the previous one-year period,” before it offers leases for renewable energy projects.
November 26, 2022
Wyoming is pursuing a $2,000,000 under the Federal infrastructure bill in order to build a hydrogen hub.
Hydrogen is viewed as a potential replacement for vehicle fossil fuels.\
December 1, 2022
The House of Representatives voted to impose the results of negotiations between railroad companies and unions that were reached last September, but rejected subsequently by the unions.
The agreement which was reached, but which was subsequently rejected by the unions increased pay 24%, but did not addressed on call schedules, under staffing and a lack of paid leave.
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