Hearing
Oversight hearing titled “Deep Dive: Examining the Regulatory and Statutory Barriers to Deep Sea Mining.”.
A source-backed event record from the House committee corpus, with connected witnesses, documents, and official source materials.
Event Info
Description and source record
- Title
- Oversight hearing titled “Deep Dive: Examining the Regulatory and Statutory Barriers to Deep Sea Mining.”
- Committee
- Committee on Natural Resources / Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
- Date line
- Thursday, January 22, 2026 (2:00 PM)
- Published
- January 14, 2026 at 09:55 AM
- Last updated
- March 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Record intelligence
This record is organized to support questions about what happened, who testified, what documents changed, and what issues were raised, with citations back to source materials.
Witnesses
People connected to this event
Mr. Gerard Barron
Chairman & CEO, The Metals Company & The Metals Company USA, Raleigh, NC
The Metals Company, Raleigh, NCMr. Oliver Gunasekara
Co-Founder & CEO, Impossible Metals Inc., San Jose, CA
Impossible Metals, San Jose, CAMr. Erik Milito
President, National Ocean Industries Association, Washington, D.C.
National Ocean Industries AssociationDr. Andrew Thaler
Founder & CEO, Blackbeard Biologic: Science and Environmental Advisors, Saint Michaels, MD
Blackbeard Biologic: Science and Environmental AdvisorsPublic profile proposed for Andrew Thaler; hearing listed the witness as Founder & CEO, Blackbeard Biologic: Science and Environmental Advisors for a 2026 House committee hearing.
Documents
Source materials
DocumentDisclosure BarronDocumentDisclosure GunasekaraDocumentDisclosure MilitoDocumentDisclosure ThalernoticeHearing NoticenoticePostponement NoticememorandumHearing MemoDocumentRep. Moylan FTR Letter to BOEM - Imposition of Deep Sea Mining on US Pacific TerritoriesDocumentRep. Moylan FTR Letter to BOEM - Unified Position Regarding Docket No. BOEM-2025-0351DocumentRep. Moylan FTR Mayors' Council of Guam ResolutionDocumentRep. Moylan FTR Res. No. 132-38 (COR) TransmittalDocumentRep. Radewagen FTR BOEM Seabed Mining CommentsDocumentRep. Dexter FTR New York Times Article - A Look at What Lives Where Deep Sea Mining Would HappenDocumentQFR Responses BarronDocumentQFR Responses ThalerDocumentQFR Responses MilitoDocumentQFR Responses Gunasekara