A Wyoming legislative committee voted against sponsoring two bills to tax wind energy development.
Industry representatives and lobbyists warned members of the Joint Revenue Committee at a meeting at the state Capitol that the proposals to tax wind power would increase costs for Wyoming households and hurt the state's fledgling wind industry.
"You need to not cobble together all these tax notions into one bill," said Larry Wolfe, a lawyer representing Duke Energy, a major wind power developer.
Wolfe said the state needs to take more time to consider taxation questions. "You're simply not going to have time today or during the …

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