WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: PHOENIX The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed three lawsuits alleging that employers in Arizona, Utah and Wyoming violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allowing sexual harassment to permeate their workplaces. The employers permitted work environments that were illegally hostile toward female employees and, in two of the cases, resulted in physical sexual a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: DENVER FEMA authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Elk Fire burning in Sheridan County, Wyoming. FEMA Region 8 Administrator Nancy Dragani approved the state's request for a federal Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) after receiving the request this afternoon and determining that the fire threatened such destruction t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey Central Energy Resources Science Center issued the following report (No. 2024-3025) on July 31, 2024, entitled "Assessment of Conventional and Continuous Oil and Gas Resources in the Lewis Shale in the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming and Colorado, 2023". The report was written by Jane S. Hearon, Christopher J. Schenk, Thomas M. Finn, Benjamin G. Johnson, Sarah E. Gelman, Jenny H. Lagesse, Cheryl A. Wood  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey WY-MT Water Science Center issued the following report (No. 2024-3035) on Aug. 30, 2024, entitled "June 2022 Floods in the Upper Yellowstone River Basin". The report was written by Katherine J. Chase, DeAnn Dutton, William B. Hamilton, Seth A. Siefken, Cassidy Vander Voort and Aroscott Whiteman. * * * Extraordinary floods surged down the Yellowstone River and its tributaries in northwestern Wyoming and south-c  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: MILLS, Wyo. The Bureau of Reclamation, along with Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails (SPHST) announced the availability of the final integrated Resource Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (RMP/EA) for Buffalo Bill Reservoir and State Park. This includes a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) in establishing the RMP. The purpose of the RMP/EA is to pro  more