Daily news roundup, Dec. 21, 2007
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Dec 21, 2007 Posted by Bill Luckett
Not much at all today. To start, the Sierra Club and the Powder River Basin Resource Council want a court review of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's handling of an air quality permit for the proposed Two Elk coal-fired power plant in southern Campbell County. The groups have asked a district court judge to review of an administrative decision by the Environmental Quality Council, which governs the DEQ. They claim the agency reversed its own determination that the air quality permit was invalidated for lack of meeting construction requirements and other actions required to maintain the permit:
Wyoming Public Radio reports that the BLM in proposing allocating 2 million acres of public land in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah for potential commercial oil shale development:
BLM moves forward with oil shale plan
Public Radio also has this story on the Pew Charitable Trusts’ analysis of Wyoming’s ability to meet its pension demands:
Study: Wyoming can meet pension bill
The Jackson Hole News & Guide writes that state wildlife officials are trying some new elk feeding practices to try to lower brucellosis infection rates:
State to try changes on some feed grounds
The Jackson paper also reports that the city Planning Commission decided not to act on a proposal to change the town’s affordable-housing mitigation rate from 15 percent to 25 percent:
Board delays condo, housing rule changes
Yes, I know it’s old news, but it’s a slow news day, so to speak. Here is the Green River Star’s take on the recently amended no-smoking law in their town: