WASHINGTON, March 14 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget posted the following news release: * * * CRFB Statement on the Passing of Alan K. Simpson Alan K. Simpson, a former Senator from Wyoming and a Member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, died Friday at the age of 93. The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: America has lost a fiscal legend tod  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Conservation Lands Foundation issued the following news release: * * * New Legislation Seeks to Gut Public Process on Federal Public Land Management in Colorado, Montana, Oregon, and Wyoming Earlier this week, Representative Jeff Hurd (CO-3) introduced legislation that mandates the Bureau of Land Management reissue nine finalized resource management plans for landscapes in Colorado, Montana, Oregon, and Wyoming. These plans fulfill a critical component of the feder  more

NEW YORK, March 14 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * Newly Signed Wyoming Law Will Take a Battering Ram to Public Education and Government Services (NEW YORK) - PEN America today criticized Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon for signing HB 147 / HEA 67 into law last week. This sweeping bill not only prohibits DEI programming and restricts course  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Renewable Energy Boom Could Bring Thousands of Jobs to Utah and Wyoming Salt Lake City, UT - Today the Sierra Club, in partnership with Current Energy Group, published a new report, Utah and Wyoming: Economic Opportunities in PacifiCorp's Renewable Energy Transition that provides a detailed analysis of how investments in renewable energy could create thousands of long-term, good-paying job  more

HAILEY, Idaho, March 14 -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release: * * * The Legacy of Brian Nesvik: Wyoming Game and Fish Department's Failure to Act Fuels Chronic Wasting Disease Outbreak on Elk Feedgrounds PINEDALE, Wyo. -- Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is spreading rapidly through Wyoming's controversial elk feedgrounds, with confirmed cases now detected on at least three feedgrounds since late 2024. Conservation groups and wildlife advocates are calling out the   more

WASHINGTON, March 12 [Category: Medical] -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network posted the following news release: * * * Wyoming Legislature Fails to Take Meaningful Action on Health Care Access CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Legislature closed business last week having again failed to take meaningful action to address the state's ongoing health care crisis. As one of only 10 states refusing to enact Medicaid expansion, tens of thousands of Wyoming residents remain in the coverag  more

CANOGA PARK, California, March 15 -- The Free Speech Coalition issued the following news: * * * Wyoming Passes Age-Verification Law for Obscene Material Yesterday, Wyoming's governor signed HB 43, a law that requires any website that hosts "material harmful to minors" (not just those with 33.3% or more) to verify the age of users before providing access. The law creates a right for "any parent or guardian of a minor who is aggrieved by a violation of" the law to sue for damages, court costs,   more