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The Casper City Council will consider the matter at its work session at City Hall at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The EPA says Kinder Morgan and Dow Chemical Company/Dowell Schlumberger, Inc., helped clean up the pollution from their facilities.

Activists on Friday were launching a series of climate strikes, with thousands of youths walking out of class in the United States and around the globe.

The executive order reflects many of the public comments collected earlier this year.

The state sued the company over similar violation claims in February 2018.

A spokesman for EOG Resources says the company will continue to work with the BLM on the project.

The Amoco Reuse Agreement Joint Powers Board does not receive any funding from the City of Casper or Natrona County.

The judge did not block drilling statewide, but only ordered the BLM not allow drilling on 282 lease sites until it reconsiders its analyses.

Eskelsen also notes that the report holds the sites to an unfair water quality standard: the standard for drinking water.

Two environmental groups and a photographer's association sued to contest the laws.