Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Elevated concentrations of ozone — a human health hazard — have returned to the Upper Green River Basin south of Pinedale after years of coordinated efforts to plug leaks and reduce emissions from oil and gas production facilities there, according to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality...
CHEYENNE—Three separate satellites detected a large methane plume stretching about 4.7 miles north of Douglas in December, according to analysis by the United Nations’ International Methane Emissions Observatory.
The errant methane — a valuable commodity and potent greenhouse gas — came from the...
CASPER — Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill into law last week that aims to simplify the approval process for rare earths mines in Wyoming.
Substantial deposits of rare earth elements often occur alongside radioactive materials, such as uranium and thorium. The new law, which was sponsored by the...
DOUGLAS — A nearly five-mile-long cloud of methane gas hung over rural Converse County in early December, the result of five gas venting releases Dec. 6-7 by Tallgrass Energy at its Douglas Gas Plant six miles north of town on WYO59.
In Wyoming’s top energy production location – Converse County...
JACKSON – Soon after Michele Voorhees pulled the trigger, she realized something was up.
It was Sept. 16 and Voorhees, 58, was out hunting in Granite Creek with her niece when they saw a mule deer grazing just across the creek. She pulled the trigger and hit the buck in the lungs. But when the...
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...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — Downtown Cheyenne is a step closer to getting a museum for kids, with early efforts at construction having begun and a ceremony planned to mark the occasion.
Due to a grant from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, the Children’s Museum of Cheyenne’s half-block...
Customers can expect periodic water cut-offs and road closures
An emergency project to replace the water main on First Avenue, from Second Avenue to Birch Street, will affect water availability and road access over a three-to-five-week period beginning Oct. 24, according to a letter to residents...
GILLETTE (WNE) — A potentially dangerous level of blue-green algae was confirmed in the Gillette Fishing Lake, and an advisory is now in place.
The Wyoming Department of Health issued a recreational use advisory for the Fishing Lake last week, according to the City of Gillette.
The lake remains...
PINEDALE — This year’s springtime planning meeting on May 25 for the Pinedale Anticline Project Area was the first in-person meeting among operators, officials and biologists, the third total since COVID shut down public gatherings.
The meeting took place at the Pinedale Field Office with...
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