{"id":26609,"date":"2025-04-24T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26609"},"modified":"2025-04-24T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:23:05","slug":"trump-takes-a-major-step-toward-seabed-mining-in-international-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26609","title":{"rendered":"Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters.<\/p>\n

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President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that nearly every other nation in the world considers off limits to this kind of industrial activity.<\/p>\n

The executive order, signed Thursday, would circumvent a decades-old international treaty that every major coastal nation except the United States has ratified. It is the latest example of the Trump administration\u2019s willingness to disregard international institutions and is likely to provoke an outcry from the country\u2019s rivals and allies alike.<\/p>\n

The order \u201cestablishes the U.S. as a global leader in seabed mineral exploration and development both within and beyond national jurisdiction,\u201d according to a text released by the White House<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s order instructs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to expedite permits for companies to mine in both international and U.S. territorial waters. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Parts of the ocean floor are blanketed by potato-size nodules containing valuable minerals like nickel, cobalt and manganese that are essential to advanced technologies that the United States considers critical to its economic and military security, but whose supply chains are increasingly controlled by China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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<!–>Source: Flanders Marine Institute<\/a>, International Seabed Authority<\/a>–><\/p>\n

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A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters.President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that nearly every other nation in the world considers off limits to this kind of industrial activity.The executive order, signed Thursday, would circumvent a decades-old international treaty that every major coastal nation except the United States has ratified. It is the latest example of the Trump administration\u2019s willingness to disregard international institutions and is likely to provoke an outcry from the country\u2019s rivals and allies alike.The order \u201cestablishes the U.S. as a global leader in seabed mineral exploration and development both within and beyond national jurisdiction,\u201d according to a text released by the White House. Mr. Trump\u2019s order instructs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to expedite permits for companies to mine in both international and U.S. territorial waters. Parts of the ocean floor are blanketed by potato-size nodules containing valuable minerals like nickel, cobalt and manganese that are essential to advanced technologies that the United States considers critical to its economic and military security, but whose supply chains are increasingly controlled by China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26611,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26612,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609\/revisions\/26612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}