U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mead Says State Won’t Honor EPA Ruling on Indian Lands
Mead Says State Won’t Honor EPA Ruling on Indian Lands
Mead Says State Won’t Honor EPA Ruling on Indian Lands
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead has written to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy saying Wyoming won't honor her agency's determination that over 1 million acres around Riverton is legally Indian Country. Mead says Wyoming will go to court to contest the decision the EPA announced earlier this month that a 1905 federal law that opened part of the Wind River Indian Res