The EPA responded to a request from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes to treat the reservation as a separate state for purposes of implementing the federal Clean Air Act.
The settlement absolves both sides: "Nothing in this Consent Decree shall constitute and admission of wrongdoing or the concession of any fact or question of law by any party."
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
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking nominees for a peer review panel that will be asked to take a close look at an EPA draft report that theorizes a link between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater pollution in a Wyoming gas field...