Trump administration will let companies bid to mine the deep ocean off American Samoa’s coast

The Trump administration is officially moving ahead with a decision to lease ocean tracts off the coast of American Samoa for deep sea mining. The decision, announced Monday, would represent the first time the U.S. government has offered up offshore mining leases. Large-scale deep sea mining has never been done before, but the seafloor could…

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