Trump signs controversial order to boost deep-sea mining industry | Environment News

The executive order will help private deep-sea mining companies to access mineral-rich nodules on the sea floor.

United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to expand the controversial but financially lucrative practice of deep-sea mining in a bid to lock down US access to critical minerals and metals beneath the seabed.

The order, which Trump signed in private on Thursday, seeks to jump-start the mining of both US and international waters as part of a push to offset…