New Mexico High Court Grants Cert In Oil And Gas Pollution Suit Dismissed By Panel

( November 17, 2025, 10:00 AM EST) -- SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by several environmental groups and people surrounded by fracking sites and other oil and gas infrastructure in the state’s San Juan and Permian Basins challenging a state appellate court’s dismissal of claims that the state failed to regulate production activities that reportedly led to the harmful release of toxic chemicals and the exacerbation of climate change effects in violation of the New Mexico Constitution....