WyoFile’s Thuermer wins high-profile journalism award
Longtime Wyoming reporter takes second in national Society for Environmental Journalism contest for series on pollutant discharge into Boysen, Wind River.
Aethon energy
BLM: Oilfield developers should protect indigenous women
Feds are on track to approve a 4,250-well oilfield expansion, which will boost revenues and add millions of tons of greenhouse gasses to a changing climate.
Senator contests new DEQ restrictions of oilfield pollution
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Eli Bebout sent a letter to regulators challenging draft permit changes made after the agency took 453 public comments.
DEQ says Aethon violated pollution limits at Moneta Divide
Wyoming DEQ’s violation letter spurs Texas company to promise monitoring changes after black sediment, free oil, sewage odor are detected.
DEQ backs off plan to dump more oilfield pollutants into Boysen
State calls for new monitoring to ensure salty water is not affecting streams’ quality.
