As reported by the Washington Post.
Deb Haaland, who has served as a Democratic U.S. Rep. from northern New Mexico since Jan., 2019 (one of two Native American women elected that congressional cycle, the first in U.S. history), has been outspoken against the Holtec International high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility targeted at southeastern New Mexico. She is from Laguna Pueblo, in northwest New Mexico, site of the world's largest open pit uranium mine (till recently surpassed in size by Olympic Dam, Australia, located on Aboriginal land), with significant health impacts on her community for the past many decades. Read our earlier feature about Haaland on Beyond Nuclear International. (Photo: Moms Clean Air Force)
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