On October 24, 2025, the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) voted to allow the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to advance formal rulemaking to implement the state’s PFAS Protection Act (H.B. 212). (For background information on the PFAS Protection Act, see the Packaginglaw.com article, New Mexico Joins Maine and Minnesota in Enacting Bans on PFAS in Food Packaging and Cookware.)

NMED submitted a draft rule to EIB on October 8, 2025. A public hearing on the draft rule will take place in February or March of 2026, after the state’s legislative session ends on February 19, 2026. Comments on the draft rule are due March 31, 2026. Publication of the final rule is expected by July 2026.