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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill that includes $750,000 in funding to help address water quality issues for residents of Pavillion is now law. Gov. Matt Mead signed the bill on Tuesday after if passed the legislature. The federal government has investigated whether hydraulic fracturing, a technique used in energy production, has contributed to what residents say are water quality problems in the area.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The owner of a central Wyoming gas field where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has theorized a link between a petroleum industry technique and groundwater pollution has asked the EPA to suspend taking public comments on the draft report...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Encana Corp. has gone on the offensive now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has theorized a link between a petroleum industry practice called hydraulic fracturing and groundwater pollution in a Wyoming gas field...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado regulators are reviewing a draft report on Wyoming groundwater pollution and a possible link to hydraulic fracturing. The director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Dave Neslin, says the commission has been following the case in Pavillion, Wyo...

Wyoming’s Hoback River is listed as one of America’s “most endangered” in a report released Tuesday by American Rivers.  Ten waterways are featured each year - they aren’t the “most polluted,” but rather rivers that face pollution risks. The Hoback is number seven because of plans for hydraulic fracturing, called “fracking,” near the river’s headwaters.