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Sponsor Mosse and community witnesses urge passage of Bill 253‑38 to ban deep‑sea mining in Guam waters
Summary
At a General Government Operations and Appropriations hearing, sponsor Mosse and multiple witnesses, including a University of Guam student group, urged support for Bill 253‑38 to prohibit seabed mining in Guam waters, citing insufficient baseline science, a lack of transparency about impacts, and concerns about erosion of NEPA protections. No formal vote was recorded.
At a hearing of the General Government Operations and Appropriations committee, sponsor Mosse and supporters urged passage of Bill 253‑38 to prohibit seabed (deep‑sea) mining in Guam waters, saying existing scientific data are insufficient to assess long‑term ecological harm and that federal review processes are moving too quickly.
The bill’s sponsor, Mosse, closed the hearing by recalling a prior, unanimous local resolution opposing proposed activities in the MIT (training/testing) area and saying community concern has grown because the threat now feels proximate rather than distant. "To it's amazing to see… a tenfold increase in what they are proposing to do in the area," Mosse said, framing the scale of proposed activities as central to the risk calculus.
Why it matters: Witnesses argued that decisions to permit seabed extraction or expanded…
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