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Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf Coast States, Biodiversity

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf Coast States, Biodiversity

The US military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore. Listen To This Story Along the industry-laden Gulf Coast, a new type of extractive industry is taking shape. Two deep-sea mining...

U.S. could begin seabed mining off the coast of American Samoa

U.S. could begin seabed mining off the coast of American Samoa

There is still time to submit comments to the U.S. Department of the Interior on a proposal to authorize seabed mining in American Samoa’s 200-mile economic zone. Seabed mining is the extraction of mineral deposits from the ocean floor, primarily...

Majority of speakers at Deep Sea Mining Town Hall express concern

Majority of speakers at Deep Sea Mining Town Hall express concern

(FP) 2776.JPG Musuaina Collins of Pago Pago, a staff member of the American Samoa Resilience Office, spoke on behalf of her colleagues and the youth of Samoa, emphasizing the critical importance of protecting marine resources for future...

Trump Administration Wants to Close Key Weather Labs Across the U.S.

Trump Administration Wants to Close Key Weather Labs Across the U.S.

This story is published through our partnership with NOTUS. The Trump administration is looking to make sweeping cuts at the nation’s weather agencies, including the closure of all federally funded meteorology labs. The cuts also come as deadly...

American Samoa on alert after imported dengue fever cases confirmed

American Samoa on alert after imported dengue fever cases confirmed

Photo: 123RF The American Samoa Department of Health has issued a travel health alert after confirmation of three imported cases of dengue fever. The department said the disease was found in travelers who had recently returned from Samoa. In its...

US seeking deep-sea miners interested in leasing American Samoa's seabed

US seeking deep-sea miners interested in leasing American Samoa's seabed

The U.S. is soliciting interest from prospective companies to lease American Samoa's seabed for deep-sea mining, amid a petition launched by advocacy groups seeking to halt the plan. There are only a few days left for the public to comment on the...

Strengthening American Samoan’s health by reducing chronic diseases

Strengthening American Samoan’s health by reducing chronic diseases

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territory of American Samoa has been selected as one of only five jurisdictions nationwide to participate in the National Governors Association’s (NGA) “Rx for a Healthier America” initiative. The program, launched...

Coalition stands with American Samoa in opposing unilateral proposals for deep seabed mining

Coalition stands with American Samoa in opposing unilateral proposals for deep seabed mining

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Right to Democracy (RtD) and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition have united in support of American Samoa's right to protect its ocean and seabeds from destructive deep seabed mining. The organizations have...

Right to Democracy and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition Stand with American Samoa in Opposing Unilateral Proposals for Deep Seabed Mining

Right to Democracy and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition Stand with American Samoa in Opposing Unilateral Proposals for Deep Seabed Mining

Right to Democracy and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition have united in support of American Samoa’s right to protect its ocean and seabed from destructive deep seabed mining. The organizations have drafted a petition to the Bureau of...

The Urgency is Artificial. My comment on the proposed permitting of deep-sea mining leases off American Samoa

The Urgency is Artificial. My comment on the proposed permitting of deep-sea mining leases off American Samoa

Last month, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, who oversees seabed mineral mining within US water received an application from Impossible Metals to lease an area offshore of American Samoa for deep-sea mining trials. Unlike The Metals...

Green infrastructure and watershed management training set for Tutuila & Manu’a

Green infrastructure and watershed management training set for Tutuila & Manu’a

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Building on previous work in the territory, the Horsley Witten Group is collaborating with The Nature Conservancy, The American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) and the American Samoa Coral Reef...

Voices from the Sea: Shaping the Future of Fishing in American Samoa

Voices from the Sea: Shaping the Future of Fishing in American Samoa

HONOLULU — The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is coming to American Samoa to hear directly from the people who know the ocean best — the local fishermen. Through a series of community meetings, the Council aims to gather...

Son reports his father to police after alleged domestic disturbance

Son reports his father to police after alleged domestic disturbance

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On May 24, 2025, a male called the Fagatogo Police Station (FPS) to report an alleged domestic dispute and disturbance involving his father. The suspect fled the scene but was later apprehended and charged with: Count...

Only one faipule attended the townhall meeting on deepsea mining

Only one faipule attended the townhall meeting on deepsea mining

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last week’s Town Hall meeting on deep-sea mining, held at the Governor H. Rex Lee Auditorium, Swains Island Faipule Alex Jennings stood out as the sole member of the Legislature in attendance. This fact was brought...

Greenpeace USA Slams U.S. Seabed Mining Plans off American Samoa

Greenpeace USA Slams U.S. Seabed Mining Plans off American Samoa

Greenpeace USA has expressed deep disappointment that the US Department of Interior is considering seabed mineral leasing near American Samoa. Greenpeace USA’s Deep Sea mining Campaign Lead Arlo Hemphill said in a statement, “This move disregards...

It’s time for a US Indo-Pacific reset

It’s time for a US Indo-Pacific reset

As the recent struggle to pass a budget for the US government illustrates, yet again, the immutable reality of limited fiscal resources, it’s time to reconsider America’s vital national interests in the Indo-Pacific and maintain a laser-like focus...

OP-ED: American Samoa must have its say in the EEZ

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A federal official recently confirmed that seabed mining near American Samoa would take place in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) — waters beyond the 3-mile limit, under U.S. federal control. That may be what the law...

Finafinau represents American Samoa at United Nations Ocean Conference

Finafinau represents American Samoa at United Nations Ocean Conference

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — From June 2– 13, 2025, the city of Nice, France, hosted the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), a global summit dedicated to the sustainable management and protection of the world’s oceans. Representing...

Fatoata hosts the NOAA Ocean Acidification Teacher Workshop

Fatoata hosts the NOAA Ocean Acidification Teacher Workshop

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fatoata hosted a three-day NOAA Ocean Acidification Program Teacher Workshop from Monday, June 23, to Wednesday, June 25. Twenty teachers from all over the island gathered to learn about ocean acidification and its...

Greenpeace USA Slams U.S. Seabed Mining Plans off American Samoa

Greenpeace USA Slams U.S. Seabed Mining Plans off American Samoa

Victor Pickering, a Greenpeace International activist from Fiji displays a banner reading “Our Pacific Is Not Yours To Destroy” in front of the Maersk Launcher, a ship chartered by DeepGreen, one of the companies spearheading the drive to mine the...

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