Joyce M. Nelson, Star-Tribune correspondent During a recent tour of the Mountain Cement Co. plant in Laramie, Daryl Woirhaye, Wyoming sales representative for the firm, and his wife, Sue, stand near a fiery window which allows a view into the kiln which burns at up to 3,000 degrees.
Sunflower Electric Cooperative's coal-fired power plant churns out electricity in Holcomb, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
State and company officials walk near the site of Cimarex Energy Co.'s planned $100 million natural gas processing plant on Riley Ridge in Sublette County during a tour in June. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune.
Steam rolls out of three of the four stacks on a recent cold day at Jim Bridger Power Plant near Rock Springs in Sweetwater County. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Casper Star-Tribune.
Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune The Jim Bridger power plant near Rock Springs is a conventional coal-fired plant. The state and GE is working on a demonstration project that would focus on clean coal and coal-gasification projects.
Dennis Harstad, vice president of plant operations for KL Energy Corp., scoops a handful of wood chips outside the company's test plant that processes the chips into ethanol for automobiles in Upton. (Bob Moen/AP file)
Photo illustration by Star-Tribune photographers
Photo illustrations by Star-Tribune photographers.
David Taylor, a forest botanist with the US Forest Service and Department of Agriculture, explains how someone cut a slippery elm tree with an axe or hatchet, and then stripped its bark from the tree in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. Associated Press file photo
The eight winners of the Powerball Lottery pose with their individual checks in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. Clockwise from top left: Robert Stewart, Alain Maboussou, Dung Tran, Eric Zornes, David Gehle, Michael Terpstra, Quang Dao and Chasity Rutjens. The Nebraska meat processing plant workers claimed the record $365 million Powerball jackpot, giving each about $15.5 million after taxes. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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