Many jeers to the Trump Administration for its creation of a new bureau, the Marine Minerals Administration.

As the administration continues to dismantle agencies dedicated to safeguarding wildlife and their ecosystems, it’s also creating new bureaus dedicated to furthering the environment’s destruction.

The new agency will be responsible for overseeing offshore oil and gas drilling, as well as for enacting the administration’s deep-sea mining agenda—which Friends of Animals is steadfast in thwarting—by holding lease sales for mineral deposits on the seabed in national waters.

This February, Friends of Animals submitted legal comments to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in opposition of a mining permit application which sought to pillage an area between Mexico and Hawaii—the Clarion-Clipperton Zone—after the Trump Administration opened the door to deep seabed mining.

The U.S. is increasingly isolated in this position. Many other countries, including France, Costa Rica, Germany, and New Zealand, have opposed deep-seabed mining and called for a moratorium or strict precautionary measures, recognizing the severe and unknown risks it poses to marine life.

The new agency is formed by combining two long-separated agencies, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, that were broken up after the 2010 Gulf Spill so that economic and development interests wouldn’t interfere with environmental safety and stewardship.

Now, those lines are blurred. The same entity charged with leasing off the ocean floor and promoting its destruction is also  tasked with protecting it.

The contradiction is intentional and the outcome predictable; the ocean will suffer.