Members of the Natrona County High School Junior ROTC prepare for their turn in the color guard event on Saturday morning at NCHS in Casper. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Natural gas is flared at a gas recapture facility in theJonah natural gas field in Sublette County. Flaring is whena driller burns off contaminated gas while finishing newwells. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune.
Sage grouse gather in the early morning as part of their spring mating behavior earlier this week near Hat Six Road outside of Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Mine Emergency Response Team trucks leave the site of six trapped coal miners at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine on Tuesday northwest of Huntington, Utah. AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac.
Angler Andy Hails, of Montgomery, Ala., checks the fishing lines on his boat as he trolls the Gulf of Mexico near a natural gas well off the Alabama coast near Gulf Shores, Ala., in this Friday, May 9, 2003 file photo. The Senate voted Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 to open 8.3 million acres of federal waters in the central Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, setting up a confrontation with the House which wants even more drilling in waters now off-limits. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
Gary Amerine, Jenny Amerine, and Dustin Child, right, eat lunch Thursday, July 27, 2006, overlooking parcels in the Wyoming Range in western Wyoming that went up for lease to oil and gas companies Aug. 1, 2006. Child teamed with Amerine in his quest to protect the Wyoming Range from oil and gas leases that could, they say, turn the Wyoming Range into another Jonah Field, one of the densest gas fields in the nation. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Cory Hatch)
Colorado University's quarterback Cody Hawkins, right, jumps on the ball while Toledo's Dan Molls moves in during the second half, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, during a college football game in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)
Halliburton's massive $30 million facility in Rock Springs opened in 2004 to serve southwest Wyoming's growing oil and gas industry. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
What is hydraulic fracturing? (Courtesy/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States)
The ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig Deepwater Horizon is shown operating in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig drilled the Tiber well nearly 7 miles deep under the gulf, BP said Tuesday. (Transocean/AP)
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