Mineral Management Service

We Need a Smart, Agile and Innovative Environmental Police Force

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mineral Management Service, Epa, Department of Interior, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Steven Cohen

When police adopt more high tech and sophisticated policing techniques and rigorous performance metrics, crime goes down. We need to apply that same approach to our efforts to manage and police environmental quality.

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Green Groups Calls For Salazar's Resignation

Juliet Eilperin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mineral Management Service, Ken Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, Ken Salazar Resignation, Green News

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Lucia Graves

BP's Atlantis: Oil Giant To Be Sued Over Safety Of Another Deepwater Rig

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mineral Management Service, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BP Lawsuit, Atlantis Rig, BP Atlantis, BP Oil Spill, Atlantis Lawsuit, Green News

Watchdog group Food & Water Watch formally gave notice Thursday of its intent to sue BP along with the federal government for violating a slew of safe...

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MMS No More: Meet The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation and Enforcement, Mineral Management Service, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf Oil Spill. Mms, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Minerals Management Service - well, the name anyway - now sits on the scrap heap of discarded monikers alongside ValuJet, Blac...

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Oil Self-Regulation Happens All Around The Globe

AP | KARL RITTER and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spil, Oil Regulation, Self-Regulation, Bp, Britain, Norway, Australia, Canada, Deepwater Horizon, Mms, Mineral Management Service, Interior Department, Green News

STOCKHOLM — The U.S. government is not alone in ceding responsibility to the oil industry for the design of key safety features on offshore rigs...

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Ken Salazar Promises Concrete Procedural Reforms In Second Year As Interior Chief

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gray Wolves, Interior Department, George W. Bush, Mineral Management Service, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, National Wildlife Federation, Statue of Liberty, Ken Salazar, Wildearth Guardians, Oil and Gas Drilling, Endangered Species Act, Eric Holder, Denver News

DENVER — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar started on the job a year ago pledging to clean up an agency hit by scandals and assailed by critics as ...

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