Governor

Gordon encourages people who want to give input on the issue to submit comments to Rocky Mountain Power before the public comment period closes.

Dockstader says the bill was about protecting small communities with coal-fired plants.

Gordon also is keeping on Michael Reed as state fire marshal, Diane Lozano as state public defender and Tom Glause as state insurance commissioner.

The plant would support the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources.

The event was organized by Gordon and his staff over the weekend and announced Sunday.

Gordon got over two-thirds of the vote to beat Democrat Mary Throne in the election Nov. 6.

Gordon's election marks the first time Wyoming's governor's office changes hands without changing parties since Democrat Mike Sullivan's election in 1986.

The district court also won't hear evidence about whether he lived on the Colorado side of his ranch that straddles the Wyoming-Colorado border.