The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.), oversees the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is mulling ...
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to gauge support for what would be the first Alaska Outer Continental Shelf ...
On the regulatory front, NOAA announced revisions to the regulations for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permit applications under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA), a ...
The Trump administration is considering mining off Alaska’s coast, which has never been done before. The Bureau of Ocean ...
As Guam and the CNMI await the next steps in a potential federal push for deep-sea mining in the region, the Trump ...
Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong maneuvered to “illegally seize” a Bahamas-based mineral mining operation by threatening to starve the venture of funds unless its founder agreed to be sidelined ...
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands—In October, a U.S. research vessel arrived in this remote South Pacific nation to capture high-definition images of the seafloor. A few weeks later, a Chinese ship arrived to ...
Application is the first consolidated exploration license and commercial recovery permit application submitted under NOAA’s new consolidated ...
Deep sea mining in the Marianas and American Samoa was a topic of contention in Washington during an oversight hearing on Friday. Companies supporting the Trump Administration’s push to fast tra ...
The Kingdom of Tonga and TMC’s subsidiary, Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd (TOML), signed a revised Sponsorship Agreement, updating the terms of their agreement signed in 2021 The Government of the Kingdom ...
NEW YORK, Aug. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Government of the Kingdom of Tonga and its sponsored entity, Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd, together with TMC the metals company Inc. (Nasdaq: TMC) (“TMC” ...