wastewater

On the heels of the Biden Administration's Build Back Better Infrastructure plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Wyoming will receive more than $60 million for work on wastewater and drinking water infrastructure projects.

the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved an aquifer exemption application by Aethon Energy Management LLC.

The samples go to a wastewater epidemiology company in Massachusetts.

The tests currently cost $100 each for a testing kit and shipping.

The readings are expected to measure virus presence in parts-per-million quantities.

The improvements will save tens of millions of dollars in future repairs.

Encore Green Environmental will apply about 7,000 barrels of the treated water to private farmland.

Guille says the byproduct could contain chemicals, but it's mostly just water.

Officials have yet to complete work including basic risk analyses on about 80 percent of abandoned mining sites on federal lands.

Nash said they're cleaning the water through a process called thermal heat, though reverse osmosis would also have been an option.