New Mexico Environment Department Secretary James Kenney is under fire to resign because environmentalists didn’t like his plan to allow treated oil and gas wastewater to be reused.
Dozens rallied recently outside his agency’s headquarters in Santa Fe and called for him to step down amidst the continuing fight over treated wastewater.
Environmentalists pressed their opposition after a state water commission voted earlier in the year and adopted rules to allow for oil and gas wastewater pilot projects, but no discharges into surface or groundwater, a decision seen as a victory for environmental groups.
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