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Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales - WyoFile (wyofile.com)

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While that's all true, it's also true that Wyoming today has the highest CO2 per capita production in the US at 96.4 tons.

The re-writing of the tax code you mentioned created the "Cowboy Cocktail", making Wyoming a tax haven for billionaires and enabling money laundering.

They are taking some small, slow steps towards mitigating the damage they have been doing for decades and are continuing for the foreseeable future.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wyoming today has the highest CO2 per capita production

Sounds like that's largely because they are the top coal producing state (40% of US coal). In 2023, 71% of power generation was from coal. 23% was from renewables, with about 90% of that coming from wind. But yeah, coal's just going to produce a lot more CO2, even compared to other fossil fuels.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Um... Yes. Just to be clear, I am advocating that Wyoming produce less coal.

And for the US (the whole world really) to consume less.