It looks like state law requires the publishing of any new rules, and the governor blocked their publishing. Think about it, it is undemocratic, legally the people are bound by those rules, but they haven’t been officially published. Not good.
Maybe the governor should have legally rescinded the rules instead of just preventing them from being published.
You have it almost right. The rules were adopted legally in the last days of the Richardson administration by a regulatory board whose members were appointed by Richardson. She can't overturn that decision but she can and did fire the board members and replaced them with those who hopefully will not rely on junk science as a basis for rules that do nothing but penalize private business. See my response at #22.
I think you're missing the point that it's the publishing of the rules, not the rules themselves, that puts them into effect. Unless and until the rules get published, the people aren't bound by them.