The EPA is allowing immediate deep underground hazardous waste injection in New Mexico for the first time, according to a Federal Register public inspection notice published Thursday.
The Environmental Protection Agency is approving the state’s application to regulate Class I hazardous waste injection wells at oil refineries, granting its Underground Injection Control program primacy under the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the notice.
New Mexico can now permit oil refineries to inject highly-polluted wastewater underground thousands of feet below the deepest drinking water aquifer.
No Class I disposal well has ever been drilled in New Mexico, the EPA notice ...
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