Vowing to “counter China’s growing influence over seabed mineral resources,” the Trump administration is opening a new front ...

Adversarial nations and strategic competitors currently dominate global supplies of rare earth elements—and control much of ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific ...

Interior reports that on April 8, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received a formal request for a lease ...

The Interior Department on Tuesday said it’s begun the process of evaluating a possible offshore mineral lease sale in U.S.

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...