American Samoa said ‘no’ to deep sea mining, Washington heard ‘faster’ (commentary)

Mongabay
Apr 1, 2026, 12:07 pm67 ptsTrending
At 7:45 a.m. one recent January day in American Samoa, a delegation from Greenpeace and Pacific Island partners sat in a small radio studio explaining why we had traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific. We were invited by local leaders to the unincorporated U.S. territory — halfway between Hawai‘i…

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