Oil Conservation Commission kicks off hearing on use of ‘forever chemicals’ in fracking November 12, 2024
New Mexico Political Report
[PSR’s Dusty] Horwitt wrote a report for Physicians for Social Responsibility that found that over the course of a 10-year period oil and gas companies used two types of PFAS chemicals in New Mexico.
He said the advocates are concerned that those types of PFAS could pose risks to the public given the health harms that have been connected to PFAS chemicals, including cancer, preeclampsia and low birth-weight in infants.
“We’re also concerned that there are many, many, many examples over this 10-year period, 2013 to 2222, of oil and gas operators in New Mexico using at least one trade secret chemical in their oil and gas wells, which could be additional PFAS,” he said.
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