Pavillion

No terms of the settlement have been revealed, and the parties are required to file a dismissal pleading by Feb. 21.

They allege gas development near their property contaminated their groundwater.

The state will spend at least another $400,000 to provide water to Pavillion-area homeowners with polluted groundwater.

The State has put forward $750,000 to install cisterns for residents who live in the Pavillion East Gas Field.The State has also paid for a water loading station in the town of Pavillion, which is nearly complete.

A state program that provides cisterns to homeowners with polluted groundwater in the Pavillion area could run out of money before everybody who wants a cistern gets one.

Twenty households east of Pavillion are getting drinking water cisterns paid for by the state. Amy Richards reports. Wyoming Attorney General Greg Phillips will be sworn in as a Federal Appeals Court Judge Monday afternoon. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

Homeowners in a gas field with tainted groundwater want more detail from Governor Matt Mead about how Wyoming will take over the EPA's investigation of what caused the contamination. Doug Randall reports. A spokeswoman for the Wyoming Poison Control center is warning parents about the hazards of glow sticks around young children. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

The EPA theorized in 2011 the petroleum industry practice of hydraulic fracturing may have contaminated the groundwater near the town of Pavillion. The EPA now says it won't finish or have outside experts review the research.

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.

Both sides of the debate over whether hydraulic fracturing has contaminated groundwater near Pavillion, Wyoming say they need more time to analyze the results of testing done by the U.S. Geological Survey. Doug Randall has the details.  An infectious disease specialist at Campbell County Memorial hospital says one of three people treated there for Group A Streptococcal infections has died. Click p