Wyoming State Treasurer Mark Gordon launched his campaign in Buffalo on Wednesday, stopped at the Boys And Girls Club's WyoTowne in Casper on Thursday.
Mead and the Department of Workforce Services worked with the Wyoming Workforce Development Council, as well as local economic development groups and other organizations, to access the federal funding.
Tuesday marked the first of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's series of public comment sessions known as scoping meetings. A report on the comments will be published later this year.
Jane Sanders said the nation needs to invest in renewable energy sources but that does not mean ignoring the pain of those who have been losing jobs at the mines.
BNSF executive chairman Matthew Rose told the Montana Energy conference in Billings on Thursday the Fort Worth-based company also has stopped hiring and is offering buyouts to its older employees.