As many Wyoming residents have been dealing with smoke pollution in the air due to the Badger Creek Wildfire in Medicine Bow National Forest, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality is reminding residents that it offers near real-time air quality information.
Basin Electric announced Tuesday that the tentative settlement comes in its lawsuit against the EPA over the agency's attempts to reduce haze from coal-fired power plants in Wyoming.
The National Weather Service is reporting that the haze we are seeing across Wyoming and the West is something that we can blame on Canada.
This haze appears to have originated from very large fires that have been ongoing across northern Alberta (and places farther north)...
Wyoming is one of a dozen states suing the Environmental Protection Agency over what the states see as a cozy relationship between the agency and environmental groups.