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The Bureau of Land Management has approved a 4,250-well expansion of the Moneta Divide gas and oilfield northeast of Shoshoni, leaving critical water-disposal and -quality questions to be decided by state officials. The BLM approved the proposed development, which would sprawl across 327,645 acres, Aug. 3, dismissing numerous worries about the environmental consequences it analyzed in a 2019 environmental impact statement. Among those are what to do with the 59 million gallons of tainted water a day that drilling would produce and that...