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Several environmental groups opposing a state water board’s oil and gas wastewater rulemaking on Thursday requested the board disqualify seven members and toss votes from earlier this year. The groups said the members’ “impartiality and fairness” were “compromised by interference” from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

The Center for Biological Diversity and Santa Fe-based New Energy Economy filed two separate motions requesting the commission address the issue in October, and cited emailed exchanges between members of the governor’s staff and cabinet members before a July meeting in which the board moved forward in efforts to roll back rules limiting expanded wastewater use.

“These commissioners and the

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