Under statutes just signed into law by the governor, if you discover an environmental disaster in Wyoming you are required by law to keep it to yourself. According to legal experts, the statutes which make it a crime to “collect resource data” from any “open land,” are clearly unconstitutional and interfere with the purposes of federal environmental laws by making it impossible for citizens to collect the information necessary to bring an environmental enforcement action. The law defines the word ‘collect’ as any method to preserve information in any form, including taking a photograph so long as the person gathering the information intends to submit it to a federal or state agency.
Read how politics are being used to suspend free speech and circumvent the Clean Water Act via Slate http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/wyoming_law_against_data_collection_protecting_ranchers_by_ignoring_the.html






