AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoDisaster Readiness: Pacific leaders warn that worsening natural disasters, intensified by climate change, are putting fragile telecommunications networks at risk. American Samoa officials and regional partners are also meeting at the territory’s Disaster Resilience Summit to strengthen preparedness. Deep-Sea Mining: American Samoa environmental groups and Manu‘a chiefs are challenging the federal plan to auction mining leases across more than 31 million acres of seabed, as the Nov. 19 sale approaches. Wastewater: EPA has ended compliance orders for ASPA’s Utulei and Tafuna sewage plants after the utility completed required work, including monitoring and system upgrades. Wildlife: Scientists are studying the native talafalu tree to protect the pepe ae butterfly, which has disappeared from Samoa’s main islands but survives in American Samoa.
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