Am Samoa says NO to deep-sea mining. Trump admin might do it anyway
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In early August, more than two dozen local residents gathered in Lee auditorium to learn about a proposal to allow deep-sea mining across more than 18 million a

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