Wyoming lawmakers invite Montana, neighboring states to energy meeting

Lawmakers in the Cowboy State have invited their neighbors to parley on energy issues, and they’re putting up more than $400,000 to pick up the tab.

With Congress and President Barack Obama already wrangling over comprehensive energy legislation for the nation, a separate meeting for western state may seem unnecessary.

Yet political leaders in Wyoming, the nation’s leading coal-producing state, say the issue is important enough for the state and the region that it’s worth staging an energy conference of their own to take a decidedly Western view of the issues.

The Western States Energy and Environment Symposium is the brainchild of Wyoming House Speaker Colin Simpson, R-Cody.

By BEN NEARY Associated Press

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