Watch the panel discussion, When Coal is No Longer King from Powder River’s 47th Annual Meeting on November 2, 2019.
This year’s theme explored how the state’s economy must change as the coal industry shrinks. Panelists Denise Parrish, Deputy Administrator of the Wyoming Office of Consumer Advocate; Robin Cooley, Director of the Department of Workforce Services, and Adele Morris, Senior Climate and Energy Economics Fellow at the Brookings Institution, discussed the economic transition from a coal-based economy and how communities, and the state as a whole, can adapt. Wyoming House Minority Floor Leader Cathy Connolly moderated the panel.
