🌿 Environment 4d ago · Anita Hofschneider

She governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.

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She governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.
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Lou Leon Guerrero, the governor of Guam, learned about the government’s plan to mine her people’s waters the same way everyone else did: by reading the news.



It was November 12, and her advisor had sent her an article link — apparently, a journalist had inquired about it. She opened the page, and was stunned by what she read. The Trump administration planned to lease millions of acres of seafloor around the island to mining companies. 



“I’ll never forget the date,” Leon Guerrero

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