On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

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Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

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There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.