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
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