Dick Cheney helps pollute his own state

Did you ever think Wyoming would have ozone warnings?

Well, courtesy of all its oil and gas drilling, it now does.

And that’s not all:

The Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab in Ashland, Ore., estimates that every year up to a half-million birds die in oil and gas waste pits in the Rockies. For comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill killed about a quarter-million birds. At what point will we take a hard look at energy development in the Rockies and figure out how we can do it responsibly? Right now, any calls for moderate development are deemed un-American, and when restrictions are proposed, the industry pouts and threatens to leave.

Of course, the author admits he drives a gas-guzzler (which probably actually gets offroad use in Wyoming), but says he is trying to conserve.