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Trump administration may sell deep-sea mining leases at startup’s urging
TechCrunch
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May 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of the Interior said Tuesday it’s beginning the process of selling deep sea mining leases after a request from startup Impossible Metals. The agency said the process would “evaluate a potential mineral lease sale in the waters...
Trump administration will evaluate request to sell leases for seabed mining of critical minerals
North Shore News
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May 21, 2025
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa, a potential first step in a wider industry push to allow deep-sea mining that...
Trump’s deep sea mining order condemned by ocean conservationists
Samoa News
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May 19, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — United States President Donald Trump's latest executive order aimed at boosting the deep sea mining industry is a "contemporary militarization of the Pacific region yet again", says an advocate for ocean conservation...
DOH Closes Four Farms for Alleged Violations and Unacceptable Practices
Samoa News
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June 3, 2025
Pago Pago - AMERICAN SAMOA The Department of Health has closed down four farms after discovering alleged violations and unacceptable practices. In a press statement, the Environmental Health Services Division noted that the farms that have been...
Bipartisan Coalition Of State AGs Oppose Ten-Year AI Regulation Ban
JD Supra - California
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June 4, 2025
A coalition of 40 State AGs[1] sent a letter to Congressional leaders opposing a proposed ten-year ban on states enforcing any state law or regulation addressing AI. The ban was included by the House Energy and Commerce Committee as an amendment...
CBP to Detain Seafood Linked to Chinese Boats Possibly Using Slave Labor
Talanei
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June 2, 2025
US Customs and Border Protection plans to detain seafood linked to Chinese fishing boats suspected of using forced labor—part of the broader Illegal Unregulated and Underreported fishing concerns of American Samoa. KHJ News Washington DC...
Scars from the world’s first deep sea mining test 50 years on
Pacific News Service
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President Donald Trump is trying to fast track new deep sea mining efforts, but half a century after the world’s first deep sea mining tests picked mineral-rich nodules from the seafloor off the U.S east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal....
15 receive AEPDA certificates from ASCC Automotive Technology Division
Samoa News
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June 3, 2025
Pago Pago - AMERICAN SAMOA A total of 15 community members proudly graduated from the Automotive Engine Performance & Drive Ability course offered by the Automotive Technology Division at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC). The 10-week...
Polynesian church sprouts in unlikely place
Baptist Press - Tennessee
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June 4, 2025
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – What possibly is the first Polynesian church in the Southern Baptist Convention started a year ago in a western suburb of Salt Lake City. All it took was connecting a pastor who prayed for 10 years in South Carolina with a...
The world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on
BBC
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ShareSave Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal. Plunging to the ocean's abyss on the Blake Plateau, a deep-sea mountain range off...
MoFo’s State + Local Government Enforcement Newsletter - June 3, 2025
JD Supra - California
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June 4, 2025
Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Enforcement team is pleased to provide our bimonthly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general (“State AGs”) across the country and...
Former Governor Lolo opposes seabed mining in local waters
Talanei
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May 7, 2025
Former Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has made known his opposition to conducting seabed mining within American Samoa’s 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone. The former Governor makes his opposition known in a May 5 letter to Governor Pulaalii Nikolao...
Environmental risk weighs heavily on the possible rewards of deep sea mining
Atlantic Council
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May 9, 2025
Many industry stakeholders and policymakers view deep sea mining (DSM) as a panacea for securing sufficient supplies of critical minerals, which are needed for clean energy and defense technologies. In March, the White House issued an executive...
What does Trump's deep-sea mining push mean for the ocean?
Context
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What’s the context? Ocean mineral hunt sparks legal chaos and threatens unknown species. Deep-sea mining poses risk of ecological collapse Companies exploit legal loopholes offshore Global competition rises over seabed control LONDON - A Canadian...
Coast Guard Cutter William Hart Returns Home
Seapower Magazine
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June 2, 2025
A crew member of Coast Guard Cutter William Hart (WPC 1134) embraces his family on the pier at Coast Guard Base Honolulu, May 31, 2025. The crew of the William Hart traveled more than 7,000 nautical miles during their 46-day patrol of Oceania....
Amata: “I will always stand with the people”
Samoa News
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June 4, 2025
Washington, D.C. — June 03, 2025 — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata released the following statement regarding seabed critical minerals: “The people are always my top priority, and I will always stand with you. We highly value our ocean and land,...
Coach: Drive, energy not therefor U16 women footballers
The National
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THE Papua New Guinea women’s team returned on Monday from their unsuccessful Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Under-16 qualifying campaign in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. PNG bowed out of the qualifying race last week after they drew 1-1 with Cook...
Discover The Wonders Of America’s National Parks
Manteca Bulletin - California
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June 4, 2025
America’s National Park Service is nearly 110 years old. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the NPS on Aug. 25, 1916, and since then the parks have attracted a steady stream of nature lovers who want to take in all the beauty the...
Discover The Wonders Of America’s National Parks
Manteca Bulletin - California
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June 4, 2025
America’s National Park Service is nearly 110 years old. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the NPS on Aug. 25, 1916, and since then the parks have attracted a steady stream of nature lovers who want to take in all the beauty the...
Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean
Mongabay
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June 4, 2025
The Samoan government announced June 3 that it has enacted a law establishing a marine spatial plan to sustainably manage 100% of its ocean by 2030. The country has also created nine new marine protected areas that cover 30% of its ocean. Fishing...