Cooper McKim

The holiday season is upon us and with it comes the Festival of Lights, better known as Hanukkah. Folks around the country are lighting their menorahs,…

Jackson Hole is in a unique position in Wyoming. While it’s a cornerstone of the state’s economy, it’s often considered separate from the equality state. Energy and natural resources reporter Cooper McKim recently visited the western Wyoming town to gauge how locals felt about the state and the area…

Wyoming’s economy was built on energy. But with the structural decline of coal and fragile oil and gas markets, the constant question has become, what’s next? How long can this dependence on energy revenue last? So, are citizens happy with the state’s response? Wyoming Public Radio’s Cooper McKim vi…

A new contest is calling on Wyoming’s youth to imagine life in Wyoming nine years in the future. Anyone born on Jan. 1, 2001, or after, and whose primary address is a Wyoming zip code, can enter to win cash prizes up to $700.

Several environmental advocacy groups are planning a tour of Laramie’s solar power installations Saturday, October 2. The goal is to help communities reach their full solar energy potential by educating folks on what’s possible, according to organizers.

A state select committee plans to draft legislation it hopes will ease the challenges of cryptocurrency mining, the process of gaining cryptocurrencies by solving equations with the use of high-powered computers, in Wyoming.

The Anschutz Corporation has made the first substantial private investment in support of the Hydrogen Energy Research Center, to be run through the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources.

The Bridger Coal Company is expecting to permanently shut the doors of its underground mining operation near Rock Springs as soon as Nov. 19, 2021. The closure plan has been in place since 2016.

A utility has just put its largest wind farm in its system online here in Wyoming. The TB Flats wind farm, located in Carbon County in southern Wyoming, can create up to 503.2 megawatts of power from 132 wind turbines. Based on its original 2018 permit application, that could power around 152,000 ho…

Jonah Energy is aiming to more precisely measure its methane emissions. The oil and gas development and exploration company operating in Sublette County is making the effort as a way toward reducing the problematic greenhouse gas emission.