Researchers at the University of Wyoming are planning to map out the emissions coming from natural gas fields in Sublette County.
The area violates federal air quality standards because emissions from the energy industry have caused high levels of ozone, which is a type of smog, to form.
Rob Field is leading the project. He says they’ll use high-tech mobile monitors to measure air quality.
In October, we reported that Chesapeake Energy had drilled a series of oil wells near Douglas, very close to people’s houses. Chesapeake says the area will likely continue to be a core drilling region. That has some area residents uneasy. Wyoming Public Radio’s Willow Belden reports.
For the last 80 years, Eastern Wyoming College’s satellite campus in Douglas was located in a former elementary school. President Tom Armstrong of Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington says it served proudly, but has worn out. He says the effort to secure funding for a new 30,000 square-foot building was five years in the making. And with voter approval of a temporary one-cent tax to fund construction this November, he says the College will soon be able to serve many more students.
