Interior secretary calls for splitting offshore-drilling agency in two
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May 13, 2010 by
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Interior secretary calls for splitting offshore-drilling agency in two
In the wake of the BP oil spill, Ken Salazar says he’ll break the Minerals Management Service into two agencies. The MMS was implicated in a series of ethics scandals in 2008. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday he will split the troubled agency that regulates offshore drilling in two, the first in what he promised would be a series of moves to improve safety regulation in response to …
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