NM oil and gas companies are looking to the Water Quality Control Commission to change the rules about what they can do with fracking and drilling waste water... again... because the WQCC just set a rule last year that's barely taken affect... and is currently under appeal. But that hasn't stopped a "new" industry group from pushing the WQCC to consider another round of rulemaking anyway.
J. Alex the Technologist spoke with State Rep Matthew McQueen (D50, Santa Fe & Sandoval County) and Paul Pino a volunteer Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium about the work they did around this issue last year, and what this new rulemaking request is about.