Water watchdogs file motion to disqualify WQCC members, vacate fracking waste discharge rulemaking after gov’s office caught tampering “The governor’s office tainted the Water Quality Control Commission in a drive to pressure members to get Big Oil’s petition ‘over the finish line’ to allow the discharge of produced water—a toxic waste—to New Mexico’s precious and scarce clean water,” said Tannis Fox, senior attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center. “In my 25 years working in this arena, I’ve never seen this level of political interference with the decision making of an administrative body charged with protecting human health and the environment. The WQCC is supposed to act impartially and base its decisions on the evidence before it, not on outside political directives. This rulemaking can not proceed fairly. Today, we asked the commission to recognize that fact. We hope the commissioners police themselves and vacate their tainted vote that allowed the rulemaking to go forward.”

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