Automakers BMW, Volvo back moratorium on deep seabed mining (AP News)

BMW and Volvo ... moratorium on deep seabed mining for minerals used in electric vehicle batteries ... also ... Samsung ... and Google ... protecting fragile ocean ecosystems ... threat from overfishing, pollution, and man-made climate change ... committed "not to source minerals from the deep seabed; to exclude such minerals from our supply chains; and not to finance deep seabed mining activities."