Similar Stories to When The Pandemic Gutted Oil Revenues, Wind Power Rescued Wyoming’s Capital City on Bing News

Isabela Dias, Mother Jones
Thu, 01/21/2021 - 11:16am

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Robin Lockman feared the worst for her town of Cheyenne, Wyoming. As the city’s treasurer, she estimated that it might lose up to 25 percent of its budget as tax revenues stalled and the prices of oil, gas and coal tanked, eliminating money the city typically receives from the state as royalties from the extractive energy industry. So the city did the hard work of laying off 18 employees and cutting funds for travel and training.

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