The Trump administration argues that opening America’s seafloor to deep-sea mining is essential for strengthening our economy and securing our energy future. From a Pacific Islander perspective, this rush to extract metals from the ocean — especially near the Mariana Trench and American Samoa — ignores hard-earned lessons and risks repeating past mistakes. In many […]
Author Archives: Angelo Villagomez
Angelo Villagomez is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress and the Ocean Co-Lead for the America for Beautiful for All Coalition. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
