When news of the Gulf oil spill first broke, we wondered if previously reported problems [1] at the Minerals Management Service, the agency that regulates offshore drilling, extended to the Gulf.
The Department of the Interior's Office of the Inspector General released a report [2] this morning indicating as much. At one Gulf Coast office of MMS, agency officials attended sporting events [3] on the dime of oil companies, stored porn [4] on company computers, used cocaine and crystal meth [4], and falsified inspection reports [5]. (The above links go directly to the relevant pages in the report [2], thanks to our ever-handy document viewer.)
rest at http://www.propublica.org/ion/blog/item/gulf-offshore-oil-regulators-blasted-for-reprehensible-ethical-lapses
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