Companies are mere years away from extracting and shipping the first mineral-rich nodules back to the U.S., according to a top official tasked with implementing President Donald Trump\u2019s push to unleash deep-sea mining in international waters.<\/p>\n
Erik Noble, NOAA\u2019s principal deputy assistant secretary for oceans and atmosphere, said Tuesday that he\u2019s working to swiftly implement Trump\u2019s executive order to fast-track exploration and production permits in waters beyond U.S. jurisdiction. Noble was notably dubbed the White House\u2019s \u201ceyes and ears\u201d<\/a> at NOAA during Trump\u2019s first stint in office.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat an exciting time to know that within in the next few years, under this administration, there will be companies pulling deep-sea nodules out of the ocean and bringing them to the U.S.,\u201d Noble said at the American Council for Capital Formation\u2019s offshore critical minerals forum in Washington.<\/p>\n Noble and a slew of other top federal regulators from across the federal government appeared at the summit hosted by ACCF, a business advocacy group now led by George David Banks, who served as a senior White House adviser on energy and climate during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies are mere years away from extracting and shipping the first mineral-rich nodules back to the U.S., according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-254928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}