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Climate Change

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett want to bring a new kind of nuclear power to Wyoming. Not everyone is happy about it.

Tim Kaumo grew up in the shadow of Wyoming's imposing Jim Bridger Power Plant, with its four towering exhaust stacks and rumbling trains delivering a steady stream of coal feeding the hungry boilers converting carbon into electricity.

Where some people see a massive monument to a climate changed by the burning of fossil fuels, Kaumo, 55, sees jobs. A stable community. Low tax rates. Good schools.