Pollution

Instead, DEQ says the state was forced to spend over $3 million to remediate the contamination.

The cost of remediating the pollution probably will cost more than $1 million.

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

Monday's change would loosen some of the requirements for cleaning up the waste streams from coal-fired power plants.

Top California officials and environmental groups pledged legal action to stop the rollback.

Emissions standards are closely linked with fuel economy requirements because vehicles pollute less if they burn fewer gallons of fuel.

Scientists have only examined a small fraction of the estimated 8 million species on Earth.

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

Officials have yet to complete work including basic risk analyses on about 80 percent of abandoned mining sites on federal lands.

With about 4,000 wells proposed in an expansion of that project, it's likely that Badwater would see much greater volumes of discharged water.