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Produced Water Reuse
The Governor's proposed "Strategic Water Supply," was an outrageous plan to use public money to fund treatment and re-use of fracking waste, a process lacking scientific evidence of safety and necessity. We won, defeating five enabling bills in the 2024 legislative session, and then we won again in May 2025 at the Water Quality Control Commission where the administration tried to pass a rule to enable fracking waste reuse.
Strategic Water Supply got a yes vote, but the antidote is up tomorrow. Action needed today!
First the good news - HB 169, the Public Expression Protection Act passed in House Consumer and Public Affairs yesterday and HB 35, Oil...
Feb 12, 2025
Strategic Water Supply vote delayed after questions raised! Tomorrow critical bills to protect against Biogas and PFAS
Yesterday after receiving all your calls, cards and emails about HB 137, the Strategic Water Supply, and hearing powerful public comment...
Feb 7, 2025
Action Alert! Amended version of Strategic Water Supply filed
The Strategic Water Supply (HB 137) is up for its first hearing in House Agriculture tomorrow at 9:00AM in Room 315. (...
Feb 5, 2025
What's the antidote to the Strategic Water Supply and oceans of oil and gas waste? New bill - SB 178. The Polluter Must Pay.
What is one antidote to the Strategic Water Supply, the Governor's dangerous false solution to New Mexico's water scarcity and the oil...
Feb 1, 2025
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time to honor the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of Dr. King. As a leader in the civil rights...
Jan 20, 2025
Our 2025 Legislative Priority - Protect People, Not Profits
We are less than one week away from the start of the 2025 Legislative Session and to no one's surprise, there are already so many...
Jan 16, 2025
Discussion draft of new Strategic Water Supply Act reveals plan is still a bailout for oil and gas industry
The Governor’s latest version of a "Strategic Water Supply Act," according to a December 3rd discussion draft, provides $75M in public...
Dec 27, 2024
Final Fracking Waste Reuse Response Brief filed as new Strategic Water Supply Once Again on the Agenda
On Friday we filed our final brief response brief and alternative language for the New Mexico Environment Department’s proposed “Ground...
Dec 10, 2024
It's time to take this fight to the States. That's where we live.
This year, New Energy Economy has taken on some of the biggest challenges facing our state—and won. Against powerful interests and...
Dec 3, 2024
"Trade Secrets" are deadly secrets
In 1997 our expert witness in the PFAS rulemaking, Kris Hansen, was hired by 3M and tasked by her supervisor to look for PFOS (one type...
Oct 22, 2024
One pound of PFAS can contaminate 34 Elephant Butte Reservoirs
Cows in Clovis are euthanized after being contaminated with PFAS laced water. On Tuesday NMED Secretary Kenney's gave a presentation at...
Oct 16, 2024
We can stop Oil and Gas companies from further poisoning our water with PFAS
New Energy Economy has intervened at the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) to support the adoption of a rule proposed by...
Oct 8, 2024
Friends, we are failing. What can we expect over the next ten to twenty years?
Though we at New Energy Economy often report on our wins in the regulatory arena, the truth is that we, collectively, are failing. We are...
Sep 11, 2024
At close of fracking waste reuse hearing Commissioner Zemlick asks the key question...Why is a reuse rule necessary?
On the final day of testimony at the fracking waste reuse hearing New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA) witnesses tried to argue...
Aug 14, 2024
Should New Mexico have worse water protections than Texas?
First, thank you to everyone who has shown up to raise their voice against corporate exploitation and profiteering at the expense of our...
Aug 9, 2024
Our expert witnesses eviscerate reuse proponent arguments
Over the past three days our three expert witnesses, including former director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission Norm Gaume,...
Aug 7, 2024
Hearing reconvenes amid outcry from the public and questionable reshuffling of Commissioners
Yesterday the fracking waste reuse hearing got off to a strange start when WQCC Commissioner McWilliams, who was called out by for...
Aug 6, 2024
Justin Nobel's Research Uncovered How Oil and Gas Preys on Vulnerable People to do their dangerous work
As we all continue to struggle with the increasing chaos, violence and uncertainty that pervades US political life, we can take comfort...
Jul 16, 2024
Commissioner Krista McWilliams’ claim to have no personal or professional conflicts of interest in the produced water reuse case further disproven by damning additional evidence
Water Quality Control Commissioner Krista McWilliams starring in a video paid for and hosted on NMOGA's website in which she falsely...
Jul 5, 2024
Justin Nobel Exposes the Oil and Gas Industry's Radioactive Secret
“A powerful industry has spread harms across the land, its people, and more so than anyone, their very own workers, and did what they...
Jun 24, 2024
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