By Pacific Island Times News Staff Guam leaders vowed to continue fighting the federal government's plans to lease 69,101,413 acres of seabed near Guam for mining of rare earth minerals. Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero and Lt. Gov. Joshua Tenorio reiterated their opposition to deep-sea mining following the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s release of its analysis of public comments regarding the potential lease sale of the ocean surrounding Guam and the CNMI. While outlining the com

President Trump has issued a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act, allowing foreign ships to move fuel between U.S. ports to mitigate the disruptions to the oil market, the White House announced Wednesday.

While acknowledging that national emergencies may trigger legitimate price adjustments, Moylan questioned the “timing of the increase in local pricing, the coordination of a price change between merchants, amount of price increase and its duration.”