fossil fuels

A year ago, just 463 rigs were active.

The U.S. rig count peaked at 4,530 in 1981. It bottomed out in May of 2016 at 404.

Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 763 rigs sought oil and 189 explored for natural gas this week.

University of Wyoming Professor Rob Godby is among those who say the measure could hike electricity bills and discourage business.

“Building fossil energy-based, world-class research programs that focus upon sustaining a prosperous future for Wyoming oil, gas and coal cannot be achieved alone,” Horner adds.

Jane Sanders said the nation needs to invest in renewable energy sources but that does not mean ignoring the pain of those who have been losing jobs at the mines.

Rex Rammell, a candidate for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, says Wyoming must fight federal regulations on fossil fuel producers in order to avert economic disaster. "Without coal, oil and gas, Wyoming will return to the desert," says Rammell...