wyoming

Federal environmental regulators and conservation advocates are pressuring Wyoming officials to revise a 2020 policy that restricts who can provide water samples for official pollution assessments. The current state rule allows only state and federal entities to submit data used to identify impaired bodies of water. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and various conservation groups contend that the existing limitation violates the federal Clean Water Act. Under federal law, states are required to evaluate all available and credible data when determining the health of local waterways. Cr