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A bill called the ''Fracturing Responsibility and Awareneness of Chemicals Act" has been introduced in congress. Deborah Smith, with Wyoming News Service, has a report. The Wyoming Rural Development Council will hold a workshop to train new community assessment team members. Amy Richards reports. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to make public the lists of ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids.

A judge heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that questions state officials' refusal to publicly release the ingredients in hydraulic fracturing chemicals that companies use to drill for oil and gas.

AP-CO- Boulder County commissioners have approved new oil and gas guidelines that will allow fracking on unincorporated parts of the county. The Daily Camera (http://bit.ly/UWvFjT ) reports that the meeting Thursday was crowded with opponents but was civil...

Wyoming oil and gas industry officials say they are not surprised by the results of new research on fracking dust. Amy Richards has a report. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will hold a public meeting on Thursday in Cheyenne to discuss their current financial status and the agency's funding needs in future years. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead is criticizing a federal proposal to reduce the amount of public land in Wyoming available for possible oil shale development. Amy Richards has details. A hydrologist hired by several environmental groups is recommending putting a tracer in fracking fluids in the Pavillion area to find out whether the fluids are getting into the local water supply. Click past jump to lis

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has enacted an emergency elk regulation in an effort to get increased harvest in elk areas 6 between Cheyenne and Laramie and 108 south of Rawlins. Amy Richards has more. a new report from the National Wildlife Federation explores some of the air, water, public health and wildlife hazards associated with natural gas production via hydraulic fracturing, or “frac

Livestock officials say two more cattle in Wyoming have tested positive for exposure to Brucellosis. Doug Randall has more on that story.  The Environmental Protection Agency is holding hearings this week on proposed changes to air quality standards for hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" . Deborah Smith from Wyoming News Service reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio Ne

Today, we'll take a look at what's happening in Cheyenne...both in the city and in the economy and business. At 7:37AM MDT, Mayor Rick Kaysen will be on with us for his regular monthly visit. We'll talk with him on all the latest developments for Cheyenne, including the initial proposals for the 6th Penny Sales tax initiative coming up...

A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides data helpful both to the fracking industry and those opposed to the natural gas drilling method, ProPublica reports. Scientists from Duke University studied a number of drinking wells in the area of fracking wells. While no chemicals were found from the drilling process, methane levels in many water suppli