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Important Issues in Wyoming
Currently, Sierra Club is working to protect Wyoming's air, public lands and wildlife by working on the following issues.
 Currently, there are 5 new coal-fired power plants on the drawing board in Wyoming. Coal-fired power plants are one of our nation's largest – and dirtiest – sources of energy. These power plants will use 50-year-old technology to burn coal, spewing pollution like carbon dioxide, the chief contributor to global warming, nitrous oxide and mercury into Wyoming’s air and water.
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 Home to four National Forests and one National Grassland, Wyoming’s public lands offer countless recreational and hunting opportunities in addition to vast habitat for wolves, bears, elk, moose, birds, bison and myriad other wildlife. Demands on Wyoming’s National Forests have increased dramatically in recent years. Logging, oil and gas drilling and road-building are threatening these wildlands.
Read more about efforts to protect the Bridger-Teton National Forest from oil and gas drilling.
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 After being almost entirely exterminated from the lower 48, gray wolves were reintroduced to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 1995. Today, there are approximately 320 wolves in Wyoming, with most living in Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming has said that it will reduce the number of wolves to the minimum once management rests with the state.
In March 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the gray wolf from the Endangered Species list. Management of wolves now rests with the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Wyoming’s wolf management plan will allow most of the state’s wolves to be killed - many already have been. Sierra Club is challening the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to remove the wolf from the Endangered Species list.
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