The Northern Arapaho Tribe is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reject a request from the state of Wyoming to halt implementation of the agency's decision that over 1 million acres around Riverton remains legally Indian Country.
EPA officials say the plan will improve visibility across wide-open spaces while protecting natural resources and local economies which depend on recreation.
The U.S. coal mining industry is projected to see a modest and short-lived rebound in 2014, driven by more production in Western states after two successive years of declines.
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead's administration wants the EPA to freeze implementation of its recent decision that over 1 million acres around Riverton remains legally Indian Country.
A well being drilled at the HollyFrontier Corp. refinery in Cheyenne will be used to study whether wastewater tainted with selenium could be disposed of by injecting it deep underground.