environment

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.

Black Thunder is the second most productive U.S. coal mine and is located in a region that supplies about 40 percent of the nation's coal.

The Western Governors' Association published the first-ever list of the 50 worst invasive species -- 25 terrestrial and 25 aquatic -- affecting the west.

Contaminants are in the soil, groundwater and buildings