For every barrel of oil produced,” in NM, Elizabeth Miller, reported in NM in Depth, “five to seven barrels of produced water also emerge from the ground. In 2018, that totaled more than 1 billion barrels. The word for every drop of it is “toxic” which is why the recently passed Produced Waters Act is so important.  Elizabeth will explain why environmental activists – who like much of what’s in the new law – worry about a single loophole written into it.