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Battle over sage grouse habitat heats up in the West

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Battle over sage grouse habitat heats up in the West

Four years after the United States hailed reduced threats to the greater sage grouse in the West as the largest land conservation effort in U.S. history, government and conservation groups are in a tug of war.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Republicans win big in Wyoming

In a gubernatorial landslide, Wyoming Republican Matt Mead trounced Democrat Leslie Petersen by a margin of 72 percent to 25 percent, returns showed.

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Western governors mull climate change

Governors from the Western United States, holding their annual meeting this week, say climate change is a key issue.

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Grouse may rival owl's economic effect

Whether to declare the sage grouse an endangered species has pit environmentalists against ranchers in the northwestern United States.

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States shun coal-powered plants

Coal-producing U.S. states are feeling suffocated by lagging technology that has not allowed coal to be burned more cleanly, a news report said.

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EU urges clean coal in U.S.

EU Ambassador to the United States John Bruton urged the United States to work on carbon capture.

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GE, University of Wyoming sign deal

Atlanta-based GE Energy has signed a letter of intent with the University of Wyoming.

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Wyoming Sen. Thomas dies

Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., died of leukemia Monday evening at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

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Feds want wolves taken off endangered list

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was expected to issue a proposal Thursday removing gray wolves in the northern Rockies from the Endangered Species List.

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Solar power coming to Wyoming ranches

Several Wyoming ranchers will soon be using new solar- and wind-powered pumps to provide a new water source for livestock and wildlife.

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Western governors mull climate change Jul 01, 2008

David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal (pronounced /ˈfriːdənθɑːl/; born October 12, 1950), is the 31st and current Governor of Wyoming. A Democrat, he was reelected to his second term on November 7, 2006, and announced on March 4, 2010, that he would not attempt to seek a third term as Governor.

Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis, the seat of Hot Springs County in north central Wyoming, the seventh of eight children, and grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated in 1973 from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, with a bachelor's degree in economics. After graduating he joined the Department of Economic Planning and Development as an economist and later became the state planning director for Governor Edgar Herschler.

Freudenthal entered the University of Wyoming College of Law, receiving his law degree in 1980, and went into private practice. In 1994, he was appointed U.S. Attorney upon the recommendation of then-Governor Mike Sullivan. Freudenthal left the post of U.S. Attorney in May 2001.

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