Oil and gas spills average one spill every seven hours in New Mexico

😡😡From January through March 2025, New Mexico recorded

307 oil and gas spills—an average of one spill every seven hours

Releasing over 75,000 barrels of hazardous waste, including 22,927 barrels of toxic “produced water,” a radioactive, chemical-laced byproduct of fracking.

Check out @wildearthguardians new report on oil and gas spills in New Mexico - Waste Watch - that covers the spills from January through March of this year— link in our bio.

It includes:

✔️ Biggest spill

✔️Companies spilling the most

✔️Amount of toxic materials spilled,

✔️counties where most spills are occurring and more.

The more eyes & shares on this, the more pressure the state feels to reign in bad actors polluting land, water, and the climate.