Category Archives: Wyoming

Evidence is accumulating that many water contamination woes in Wyoming are the result of hydraulic fracturing operations in the state. In the late summer of 2009, for example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said drinking water contamination near the …

Residents of Pavillion, Wyoming may be getting sick because of hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking. According to an Associated Press report, the group Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project says that four out of five people who have returned a …

Benzene and methane gas have been found in water wells located near hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations in Pavillion, Wyoming. According to CNN, federal officials have warned owners of the wells not to drink water from them.

Wyoming, a state not known for its love of regulation, has become the first in the nation to require that gas drillers disclose the chemicals used in hydralic fracturing, or fracking. The ingredients in so-called fracking fluid will be public …