O’Halleran profiting from uranium mining

In case you missed it in Newsweek, Tom O’Halleran is profiting and investing in the very same mining companies that abandoned more than 75 uranium mines in his district and were fined $600 million by the EPA. 

From Newsweek: 

Arizona’s Tom O’Halleran, running for reelection in the state’s First Congressional District, likes to tout his work getting federal funding to clean up polluted uranium mines on land belonging to the Navajo Nation. Yet his family has bought, sold, and still owns thousands of shares in different mining companies, one of which abandoned more than 75 uranium mines on that same land. Is O’Halleran seeking tax dollars to clean up his own mess? One could argue he is.

NRCC Comment: “While the Navajo Nation still fights for basic needs like running water, their congressman is profiting off the mining companies that abandoned more than 75 uranium mines in Arizona’s First Congressional District.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair