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Pensacola News Journal
February 12, 2018
Given the ways in which seismic surveying technology has advanced, it's likely that those earlier approximations may not accurately predict the oil and natural gas resources potentially within reach. In fact, 31 years ago, the U.S. Minerals Management Service estimated that the Gulf of Mexico had only 9.57ÃÂ ...
Atlantic Council (blog)
February 8, 2018
Cynthia L. Quarterman is a distinguished senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center. She formerly served as the administrator of the US Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the director of the Minerals Management Service.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
January 29, 2018
... claiming the federal government has not disclosed documents that could show harmful effects to polar bears and other marine mammals. The groups said the documents could reveal that the Minerals Management Service's plans for the outer continental shelf sale are ill-advised and possibly illegal.
The Hill
January 26, 2018
As a result, the Commission concluded, that the Minerals Management Service performed “no meaningful NEPA review” associated with its permitting for drilling of BP's exploratory Macondo well.” On April 20, 2010, the blowout from Deepwater Horizon killed 11 people, spilled more than 210 million gallonsÃÂ ...
ecoRI news
January 19, 2018
BOEM is one of the remnants of the implosion of the Minerals Management Service that was renamed as a result of a sex-for-oil-drilling-contracts scandal, as well as the Deepwater Horizon disaster. In other words, despite efforts to use good science to decide what to do in the past, the agency has alwaysÃÂ ...
Montrose Daily Press
January 14, 2018
She attended Oak and Maple Grove elementary schools and graduated from Montrose County High School with honors and scholarship in 1959. She retired in 2015 after working for the U.S. Department of Interior for 27 years, both in the Bureau of Land Management and Minerals Management Service.
Bangor Daily News
January 12, 2018
During our commission's review of the BP spill, I visited the Gulf office of the Minerals Management Service in September 2010. This Interior Department agency was responsible for “expeditious and orderly development of offshore resources,” including protection of human safety and the environment.
Charleston City Paper
January 10, 2018
"Between 1971 and 2000, tankers and barges were responsible for 45 percent of the volume of oil spilled in U.S. waters, according to a 2002 U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service report. In that same period, pipelines were responsible for 16 percent of the volume of oil spilled in U.S.ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 8, 2018
During our commission's review of the BP spill, I visited the Gulf office of the Minerals Management Service, a part of the Interior Department dedicated to human safety and the protection of the environment. While there, an inherent conflict became clear between, on the one hand, increasing production andÃÂ ...
Center For American Progress
October 10, 2017
In 1982, then-Secretary of the Interior James Watt, an avowed champion of extractive industry, announced the creation of a new agency, the Minerals Management Service (MMS), which he designed to implement his goal of leasing 1 billion acres of federal waters for offshore drilling. To expedite thisÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 24, 2010
The report, which describes inappropriate behavior by the staff at the Minerals Management Service from 2005 to 2007, also found that inspectors had accepted meals, tickets to sporting events and gifts from at least one oil company while they were overseeing the industry. Although there is no evidenceÃÂ ...
UW Today
December 31, 1999
... Beluga Whale Committee, North Slope Borough, Village of Point Lay, the Inuvialuit Hunter and Trapper Committees, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Minerals Management Service.
The Providence Journal
December 9, 2017
He points to the scandal that enveloped the Minerals Management Service during the administration of George W. Bush. It had been set up in suburban Denver with a mandate to conduct the business of collecting $10 billion in royalties like a private company. It turned into a cesspool of corruption and badÃÂ ...
The Chicago Monitor
December 8, 2017
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Los Angeles Times
December 7, 2017
He points to the scandal that enveloped the Minerals Management Service during the administration of George W. Bush. It had been set up in suburban Denver with a mandate to conduct the business of collecting $10 billion in royalties like a private company. It turned into a cesspool of corruption and badÃÂ ...
EdSource
December 4, 2017
When I was the controller, I sued President Bush's administration, MMS [Minerals Management Service], to retain our mineral rights. When I was the controller, I was the most successful auditor in California history. I did $9.5 billion of audit findings. Kathleen Connell (state treasurer from 1995 to 2003) didÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
December 1, 2017
Bloomberg News reported in June that Zinke and President Donald Trump's administration were considering recombining BOEM and BSEE. The two agencies were extracted from the Minerals Management Service during the administration of former President Barack Obama as independent arms of theÃÂ ...
Center For American Progress
October 10, 2017
In 1982, then-Secretary of the Interior James Watt, an avowed champion of extractive industry, announced the creation of a new agency, the Minerals Management Service (MMS), which he designed to implement his goal of leasing 1 billion acres of federal waters for offshore drilling. To expedite thisÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 24, 2010
The report, which describes inappropriate behavior by the staff at the Minerals Management Service from 2005 to 2007, also found that inspectors had accepted meals, tickets to sporting events and gifts from at least one oil company while they were overseeing the industry. Although there is no evidenceÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
December 31, 1999
The BSEE and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which focuses on offshore oil development and leasing, were separated from the former Minerals Management Service in 2010 in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster to assure that the agency's safety staff was separated from thoseÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
August 28, 2017
For decades the federal agency in charge of offshore drilling — known as the Minerals Management Service prior to the Deepwater HorizonÃÂ ...
Politico
August 25, 2017
Interior spent millions of dollars and countless staff hours to carve the two agencies out of the notorious Minerals Management Service after aÃÂ ...
Axios
August 25, 2017
In 2010 Bromwich led the yearlong breakup of the Interior's troubled Minerals Management Service into three separate branches to end whatÃÂ ...
MyStatesman.com
August 24, 2017
Studies commissioned by the Minerals Management Service, a division of the U.S. Interior Department, concluded that just over 741,000ÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
July 28, 2017
By 2007, the Minerals Management Service, the predecessor to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, had ordered Taylor toÃÂ ...
E&E News
July 25, 2017
... including a drug and sex scandal at the former Minerals Management Service and political interference in endangered species decisions.
Truth-Out
June 30, 2017
"The agency that existed at the time was the Minerals Management Service (MMS)," Beyer said. "And when that agency wasn't mired in scandalÃÂ ...
Splash 247
June 9, 2017
... explosion at BP's Macondo well the functions of BOEM and BSEE were performed by one body, the Minerals Management Service (MMS).
Common Dreams
June 8, 2017
In the years leading up to the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, the offshore oil regulator – the U.S. Minerals Management ServiceÃÂ ...
CNN International
May 27, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- Minerals Management Service Director Elizabeth Birnbaum has been fired, according to two CNN sources. A seniorÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 24, 2010
The report, which describes inappropriate behavior by the staff at the Minerals Management Service from 2005 to 2007, also found thatÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 13, 2010
WASHINGTON — The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf ofÃÂ ...
E&E News
March 8, 2017
He also warned that major scandals had happened at Interior "under his nose," including an ethics scandal involving employees in the Minerals Management Service (E&ENews PM, Sept. 10, 2008). Dan Brouillette, a senior executive at the Texas-basedÃÂ ...
E&E News
March 7, 2017
For almost 40 years, BOEM - and its predecessor, the Minerals Management Service - has provided the Smithsonian with the invertebrates its scientists find in offshore oil and gas leasing areas.
Petroleum News
March 3, 2017
The Bureau of Land Management Feb. 28 opened a 90-day public scoping period for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road, a proposed 211-mile road that would run west from the Dalton Highway along the southern foothills of the Brooks RangeÃÂ ...
Daily News & Analysis
March 2, 2017
The agency exercises the safety and environmental enforcement functions formerly under the Minerals Management Service, including the authority to inspect, investigate, summon witnesses and produce evidence, levy penalties, cancel or suspend activities ...
The Daily World
January 27, 2017
Three years prior, the United States Marine Minerals Management Service had announced oil and gas drilling leases on our Outer Continental Shelf.
Coastal Review Online
January 27, 2017
For several years, researchers from NOAA, East Carolina University and the UNC Coastal Studies Institute have worked with the Minerals Management Service, the National Park Service and the state of North Carolina to document the Battle of the Atlantic.
Bloomberg BNA
December 12, 2016
He also formerly worked at the Interior Department's U.S. Geological Survey and Minerals Management Service (now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement) on energy and mineral resource assessments, environmentalÃÂ ...
Environment & Energy Publishing
December 9, 2016
Another prominent enemy of climate science has been added to the Trump transition's U.S. EPA landing team. As the transition fleshed out its lists of staffers heading into agencies today, the team announced that Christopher Horner, an outspoken ...
Upstream Online
October 31, 2016
Last week's decision by District Court Judge Patricia Minaldi that the US Minerals Management Service (MMS) overstepped the mark by imposing pricing thresholds on deep-water leases in the Gulf of Mexico was a victory for plaintiff Kerr McGee, now ownedÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
October 19, 2016
Even the since-renamed Minerals Management Service, the corrupt US government agency that mismanaged the calamitous Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 and failed to adequately regulate oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, registered "potentially ...
E&P
October 17, 2016
In 1987, for example, the Minerals Management Service estimated there were 9.57 billion barrels (Bbbl) of recoverable oil resources in the GoM; however, more seismic data acquisition and more exploratory drilling combined with technological advancesÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner (blog)
October 13, 2016
"In 1987, the Minerals Management Service estimated 9.57 billion barrels of recoverable oil resources in the Gulf of Mexico," he said.
Verde Independent
October 6, 2016
When preventative measures such as remotely-activated, acoustically-triggered BOPs were being considered by the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service, both the agency as well as the drilling companies decided that the devices would notÃÂ ...
TakePart
September 29, 2016
They revealed the Minerals Management Service to be riddled with corruption. Regulators had accepted meals, gifts, and sports tickets from companies they were regulating.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 25, 2016
Issa said his committee was critical of the dysfunction of the federal Minerals Management Service under Bush after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the $700 billion bank bailout initiative known as the Troubled Asset ...
Oil & Gas 360
September 21, 2016
... before federal and state courts of all levels and before administrative agencies, including the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, formerly the Minerals Management Service of the Department of Interior, the Federal ...
Los Angeles Times
September 20, 2016
Issa said his committee was critical of the dysfunction of the federal Minerals Management Service under Bush after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the $700-billion bank bailout initiative known as the Troubled Asset ...
Yahoo Movies (blog)
September 14, 2016
Berg points out that Deepwater Horizon, as shown in the film, actually had actually won an award from the Minerals Management Service in 2008 for its safety record, and had operated seven years without accident. "They never had a drop of oil spilled ...
