Environmental Protection Agency
Simple personal actions can help residents escape some potentially serious insect-spread diseases linked with warmer weather and outdoor activities, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH).
Courtney Tillman, epidemiologist with WDH said avoiding mosquitos and ticks is the basic strategy...
POWELL — As Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives slogged through 15 votes to elect a new speaker in early January, they spent more than 25 hours on the House floor together, with little to do but visit. And U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) said she took advantage.
“I used every...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — On Wednesday, Gov. Mark Gordon, through the Attorney General’s office, submitted a petition for review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to defer action on Wyoming’s state implementation plan for ozone transport to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
This...
BUFFALO —A federal lawsuit that seeks to prevent the U.S. Forest Service from dropping aerial fire retardant into U.S. waterways could endanger Johnson County residents' lives and property, a local leader said last week.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics filed the lawsuit in...
The principal operator at the Moneta Divide gas- and oilfield is on the cusp of failing to receive a permit by a deadline it said was necessary for the company “to be successful.”
Aethon Energy needs EPA permission to pump polluted water from the oilfield through the Marlin Well into the...
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Newcastle’s public works personnel worked throughout the night on
March 9 into the morning of March 10 to repair a water main break.
The break was reported at about 8 p.m. and the water was turned
back on by 5:30 a.m. The break did cause a late start for Weston
County School District No. 1.
Water issues have been plaguing Newcastle for some time, and according to the city’s public works supervisor, the most recent water main break resulted in a late start for schools in Weston County School District No. 1 on Friday, March 10.
The leak leading to the late start on Friday was...
GILLETTE —Gail Heath had a chronic cough that just wouldn’t go away.
It started in the winter of 2020. For anyone sick at that time, there were a number of reasons to be concerned or, at the very least, hyper-aware of even the slightest coughs and chest pains.
The Gillette woman, now 75 years old...
JACKSON — Harriet Hageman, Wyoming’s new Republican congresswoman, is dead set on decreasing the size of the federal government.
When she thinks about Teton County’s housing crisis, she’s thinking about tackling it with federal land — not the Teton County Fairgrounds.
“Taking away your western...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday an Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act settlement with Dyno Nobel Inc., resolving alleged violations at the company’s ammonium nitrate production facility in Cheyenne.
Under the terms of a Consent Agreement...
CASPER — Wyoming is home to some of the worst coal ash contamination in the country, according to a new report from a pair of environmental groups.
Authored by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice, the report ranks the Naughton and Jim Bridger power plants — both located in...
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