CHEYENNE — The director of the Environmental Protection Agency visited the Wyoming State Capitol on Thursday to meet with state officials, including Gov. Mark Gordon and U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis.

At the meeting, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a document approving Wyoming’s coal combustion residuals (CCR) program. If approved after a 60-day public comment period, this would make Wyoming the fifth state to have primacy over its CCR programs.

These types of programs manage coal ash disposal in surface impoundments and landfills, which has been regulated by the feds since 2015.

CCR is produced primarily by coal-fired power plants, of which Wyoming has several. Residuals include a number of byproducts, such as fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag and flue gas desulfurization material.

Some

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