During a discussion with the University of Wyoming’s Board of Trustees on Thursday, Gov. Mark Gordon said the university should tap its research capabilities, especially those at the School of Energy Resources, for carbon sequestration and become a leader in combating climate change.

“Wyoming has the solutions for our climate,” he said. “We can take our coal products and we can make them part of the solutions. This a point I keep trying to make to my colleagues on the West Coast, colleagues like Gov. Jay Inslee. If you push as hard as you can to put a 100 percent renewable platform on this planet, you have done nothing to eliminate carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We in Wyoming have the schools, the research and the ability to move a process forward that can keep our coal mines essential to our electric grid, and at the same time solve our climate solution. I would love to see the University of Wyoming take the stage, front and center on that.”

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