“The ocean is not a waste bin for corporations trying to cash in on climate change,” said Benjamin Day, Senior Campaigner for Climate and Energy Justice at Friends of the Earth. “Carboniferous is trying to turn a uniquely sensitive, poorly understood deep-sea ecosystem into a private carbon dump. Friends of the Earth has called on the EPA to hold a formal public hearing on the proposed experiment and reject the permit. These removals are out of line with the country’s restrictive ocean dumping laws and are not authorized by Congress,” said Day. “We need real solutions to the climate crisis – not speculative, profit-driven schemes that treat the ocean as a dumping ground.”Communications contact: Benjamin Day, [email protected]