Source: takepart
Author: David Kirby
Donald Trump is still seven weeks away from taking office, but when it comes to permitting the controversial practice of deep-sea mining, the incoming administration’s hands are already tied.
The settlement’s terms will be binding on the Trump Aaministration, said Emily Jeffers, an attorney for the environmental group. Trump’s campaign website does not mention deep-sea mining, although it does call for opening offshore leasing and eliminating all “wasteful and unnecessary regulation.”
“He wants to ramp up coal production and is not concerned about the impact of strip mining and mountaintop removal, so it makes me think he wouldn’t be afraid to strip-mine the ocean floor,” Jeffers said of the president elect.
For more, go to: http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/12/01/environmentalists-tie-trumps-hands-deep-sea-mining
See also: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/deep-sea-mining-11-30-2016.html