The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) – Solid Waste Permitting and Corrective Action Program will be celebrating Solid Waste and Recycling Workers Week from June 17-23, 2023. DEQ will spend the week featuring the critical work of those in the solid waste industry. “Wyoming has over 200 solid waste facilities across the State,” according […]
By Kimberly Mazza GLENROCK – About 17 years ago an article appeared in the Douglas Budget entitled “After 50 years of powering generators, Glenrock Coal Mine restored to original beauty”. The article outlined the history of the Dave Johnston Mine (DJ Mine) – its official name – and its exemplary reclamation that was located about […]
By Kimberly Mazza CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently awarded the 2023 Excellence in Mining Reclamation Award for coal to Black Thunder Mine for obtaining Area and Phase 1 Bond Release across reclaimed areas in 2022. DEQ presents the Excellence in Mining Reclamation Awards to Wyoming coal and noncoal mine operators […]
DEQ Director Todd Parfitt, right, and SHWD Administrator Suzanne Engels present Craig McOmie with DEQ’s 2022 Public Servant of the Year award By Kimberly Mazza CHEYENNE – Craig McOmie was named 2022 Public Servant of the Year on June 5, 2023, for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). McOmie is the agency’s Natural Resources […]
Pictured from left: WQD Administrator Jennifer Zygmunt, Brad Kniss, Katherine McCrea, Kevin Campbell, and DEQ Director Todd Parfitt. By Kimberly Mazza CHEYENNE – The Water Quality Division Wyoming Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WYPDES) Compliance and Enforcement Team was named the 2022 Team of the Year on June 5, 2023, for the Wyoming Department of Environmental […]
DEQ leadership receives signed proclamation from Governor. From left: Deputy Director and ISD Administrator Alan Edwards, SHWD Administrator Suzanne Engels, Governor Mark Gordon, Director Todd Parfitt, WQD Administrator Jennifer Zygmunt, Management Services Administrator Kimber Wichmann, AQD Administrator Nancy Vehr, LQD Administrator Kyle Wendtland By Kimberly Mazza CHEYENNE –Governor Mark Gordon celebrated the Department of Environmental […]
HCBs at Alcova Reservoir By Kimberly Mazza CHEYENNE, Wyo – Since 2017, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has worked with cooperators to improve our understanding of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in Wyoming waterbodies for the wellbeing of the public. Harmful cyanobacterial blooms, also known as HCBs, blooms, or blue-green algae are dense accumulations of cyanobacteria […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo – With summer nearly upon us and more people heading to Wyoming’s lakes and reservoirs to recreate, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Wyoming Department of Health (WDH), Wyoming Livestock Board (WLB), and local, state, and federal partners want to remind the public to avoid and keep animals away from harmful cyanobacterial […]
By Kimberly Mazza LANDER – Todd Parfitt, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Director presented the Interstate Mining Compact Commission (IMCC) Public Outreach Award to Gina Clingerman of the BLM for her ongoing efforts in the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Native Plants Project, providing sagebrush habitat reclamation in Wyoming. Parfitt also presented the Lander Middle School […]
By Kimberly Mazza CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Air Quality Division (AQD) has been recognized in the newly released 2023 edition of “State Air Trends & Successes: The StATS Report.” The annual publication, which has been issued by the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA) since April 2017, looks at […]