💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 26, 2025
USGS Releases Assessment Of Undiscovered Oil & Gas Resources In Wyoming, Southern Montana
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/usgs-releases-assessment-undiscovered-oil-and-gas-resources-wyoming <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20243049 <-- shared publication
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/65032556d34ed30c2058be2d <-- shared open data
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https://api.sciencebase.gov/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities&namespace=sb-65032556d34ed30c2058be2d <-- shared spatial service
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #oilandgas #OG #naturalresources #oil #gas #fedscience #model #modeling #Wyoming #Montana #assessment #WindRiverBasin #BighornBasin #PowderRiverBasin #exploration #undiscovered #energy #energysupply #geology #structuralgeology #sediments #lithology #reserves
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USGS releases assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in Wyoming, southern Montana

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey released its assessment of potential for undiscovered oil and gas in formations under Wyoming and parts of southern Montana as well as parts of western South Dakota and Nebraska, assessing that there are technically recoverable resources of 47 million barrels of oil and 876 billion cubic feet of gas. 

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 21, 2024
Washington Post reports that #America took "one of its biggest steps yet to keep #fossilfuels in the ground," announcing Thursday that it will end new #coal leasing in the #PowderRiverBasin, "which produces nearly half the #coal in the #UnitedStates. Interior’s Bureau of Land Management found that continued coal leasing in the Powder River Basin would harm the #climate and #publichealth.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-us-just-took-its-biggest-step-yet-to-end-coal-mining/ar-BB1mw5qf #climate #mining #climatechange
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Matt WillemsenMay 19, 2024
The U.S. just took its biggest step yet to end coal mining
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-us-just-took-its-biggest-step-yet-to-end-coal-mining/ar-BB1mw5qf #Biden #environment #coal #mining #PowderRiverBasin
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺May 17, 2024

#Biden administration ends new #coal leasing in #PowderRiver Basin https://www.ehn.org/biden-administration-ends-new-coal-leasing-in-powder-river-basin-2668294132.html

"The administration will end new coal leasing in the #PowderRiverBasin, the largest coal-producing region in the U.S. #Climate activists celebrate the decision, which could prevent billions of tons of coal from being mined."

"#Obama administration announced a pause on new coal leases in 2016... #Trump quickly axed the moratorium when he took office the next year." https://www.eenews.net/articles/what-bidens-coal-pause-means-for-the-climate/

Biden administration ends new coal leasing in Powder River Basin

The Biden administration moves to halt new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, aiming to curb fossil fuel extraction.Maxine Joselow reports for The Washington Post.In short:The Biden administration will end new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, the largest coal-producing region in the U.S....

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Here's #WhatBidenDid to keep coal in the ground:

"In one of its biggest steps yet to keep #FossilFuels in the ground, the Biden administration announced Thursday that it will end new coal leasing in the #PowderRiverBasin, which produces nearly half the coal in the United States.

The bureau determined that no future coal leasing should happen in the basin, and it estimated that coal mining in the #Wyoming portion of the region would end by 2041."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/16/coal-leasing-powder-river-basin-climate/

U.S. to end coal leasing in nation’s largest coal-producing region

The Biden administration’s decision ends new leasing in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana following years of lawsuits.

The Washington Post