On 24 April 2025, the US issued an executive order authorising federal agencies to begin granting licences for deep-sea mineral extraction both within the US Exclusive Economic Zone and in international waters including the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, explicitly bypassing the International Seabed regs
The region is called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. It is approximately six million square kilometres of abyssal plain stretching between Mexico and Hawaii, roughly the width of the continental United S...
