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New Mexico Weighs Legal Options On PFAS If EPA Retreats On RCRA Rules

November 18, 2024
New Mexico is evaluating its legal options should the incoming Trump EPA fail to regulate PFAS under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), an action the Biden administration had promised in response to a 2021 petition from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) to list all PFAS as RCRA “hazardous waste.” “We believe we have a cause of action that the law would support, and we are evaluating how we want to exercise that cause of action,” New...


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