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					<title>American Samoa said ‘no’ to deep sea mining, Washington heard ‘faster’ (commentary)</title>
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					<pubDate>01 Apr 2026 16:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jackie Dragon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Commentary, Conservation, Deep Sea, Deep Sea Mining, Ecosystems, Environment, Ethics, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Marine, Marine Conservation, Mining, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[At 7:45 a.m. one recent January day in American Samoa, a delegation from Greenpeace and Pacific Island partners sat in a small radio studio explaining why we had traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific. We were invited by local leaders to the unincorporated U.S. territory — halfway between Hawai‘i and Australia — to listen, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At 7:45 a.m. one recent January day in American Samoa, a delegation from Greenpeace and Pacific Island partners sat in a small radio studio explaining why we had traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific. We were invited by local leaders to the unincorporated U.S. territory — halfway between Hawai‘i and Australia — to listen, to learn, and to help elevate what people in American Samoa have been saying for years. Communities there are deeply concerned about deep-sea mining, and they want to be heard before decisions are made about the ocean that sustains them. Hours later, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) stood before local officials in a meeting space up the street, walking them through the steps of a federal leasing process that was already moving forward, fast. BOEM’s visit, even as the governor’s office convened space for community voices, felt less like consultation and more like choreography. The agency’s message was, in essence, we hear you, but we are moving forward. Meeting with the governor (center, in red) about the proposal, from left: Ekolu Lindsey, director of Maui Nui Makai Network; Sheila Sarhangi, director of Pacific Islands Heritage Coalition; Bobbi-Jo Dobush, independent ocean policy consultant, Salt Horizon LLC; American Samoa Governor Pula’ali’i Nikolao Pula; Solomon Kahoohalahala, Indigenous Hawaiian elder, Maui Nui Makai Network; Jackie Dragon, senior oceans campaigner, Greenpeace USA; Arlo Hemphill, Greenpeace USA&#8217;s campaign lead on deep sea mining. Image courtesy of Greenpeace USA. BOEM received more than 76,000 public comments, most warning of environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/american-samoa-said-no-to-deep-sea-mining-washington-heard-faster-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Is 20 millions tons enough? Scientists recommend plastic crackdown as oceans choke</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/04/is-20-millions-tons-enough-scientists-recommend-plastic-crackdown-as-oceans-choke/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2014 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Chris Samoray]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States Minor Outlying Islands]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Green, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, and Rio Summit]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every year, 20 million tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans. In 2012, the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development dubbed marine plastic litter “a major environmental issue that the world must address,” and asked for management action by 2025. One group of researchers started early and was among the first to take [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every year, 20 million tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans. In 2012, the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development dubbed marine plastic litter “a major environmental issue that the world must address,” and asked for management action by 2025. One group of researchers started early and was among the first to take on the Rio +20 call to tackle marine plastic pollution, presenting a “Top Ten” list of recommendations ranging from international treaties to public education and awareness programs. “Plastic marine litter is far more than an aesthetic problem,” writes the team from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in a study published in UCLA’s Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Briefs. “Increasing harm to marine wildlife and rising economic costs provide an enormous incentive to tackle the global plastic marine litter problem more aggressively.” The team suggests that international cooperation is among the most urgent action needed to better control marine plastic waste. One of their recommendations is an international treaty on par with the 1989 Montreal Protocol—an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer—that would employ strong monitoring, tracking and reporting practices, along with marine litter standards enforceable on a global scale. Marine debris litters a beach on Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Another international treaty the team proposes would ban some of the most common and damaging types of plastic pollution such as single-use plastic bags, foam food containers&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/04/is-20-millions-tons-enough-scientists-recommend-plastic-crackdown-as-oceans-choke/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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