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22 Jun 2010, 6:46 am by Glenn Reynolds
., recently blamed Bush appointees who “burrowed in” at the Minerals Management Service for the regulatory failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 8:04 pm
On July 9, 2008, the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) issued proposed regulations for granting leases, easements and rights of way for alternative energy project activities and for alternative uses of existing facilities located on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). [read post]
14 Sep 2008, 1:48 pm
Whether sipping wine together at genteel fundraisers, or snorting coke at the Minerals Management Service, the fusion of big business and the executive branch is approaching completion under the Bush administration. [read post]
18 May 2010, 9:37 am
[JURIST] DC-based consumer advocacy organization Food and Water Watch (FWW) [advocacy website] filed suit [complaint, PDF] in a US district court Monday against the US Department of Interior (DOI) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) [official websites] for an injunction to halt drilling at the BP Atlantis Facility [corporate website] in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 12:08 am
In a memorandum [text] to the secretary of interior dated Tuesday, Bush modified a moratorium [US Minerals Management Service fact sheet, PDF] that President Clinton imposed in 1998, forbidding drilling leases in those areas [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 12:23 pm by Liskow & Lewis
  The case is noteworthy in that it was brought as a False Claims Act case by Bobby Maxwell, an auditor with the Mineral Management Service, who alleged that his superiors at the MMS refused to pursue his recommendation to demand additional royalties from Kerr McGee. [read post]
3 May 2010, 11:57 am by admin
A 2004 study commissioned by the US Minerals Management Service expressed concerns that the performance of a piece of equipment critical to sealing off leaks in subsea oil wells had not been adequately demonstrated. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 7:05 am by Jessica Steinberg
Department of Interior (“DOI”) Minerals Management Service’s (“MMS”)[1] environmental polices for oil and gas exploration and development in the Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”). [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 9:46 am
From 1998 to 2004, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM or the Agency) conducted a large-scale land management planning process for federal fluid minerals development in Sierra and Otero Counties, where the Mesa is located. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 2:24 pm by Liskow & Lewis
On June 27, 2007, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) issued its notice advising the public of its intention to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) for proposed OCS Lease Sale 206, which is the Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale to be held in March 2008. [read post]
16 May 2010, 8:36 pm by Glenn Reynolds
In fact, the agency’s inspection frequency on the Deepwater Horizon fell dramatically over the past five years, according to federal Minerals Management Service records. . . . [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 10:21 pm by Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
On behalf of a coalition of nine individuals and environmental organizations, we filed a lawsuit last week in federal district court alleging that the Minerals Management Service and other officials in the U.S. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 6:59 am by Glenn Reynolds
Under Obama, the Minerals Management Service, driven by a strongly ideological commitment to green energy sources such as wind and solar power, chose to stress ‘renewables’ while de-emphasizing the tough and dirty work of managing the nation’s existing offshore oil wells. . . . [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 8:19 pm by Ben Rubin
  The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, attacks the "policy" and "decisions" of the former Minerals Management Services (now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement) that exploration drilling poses de minimis risk to endangered and threatened species, and therefore is subject to a categorical exemption from full environmental… [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 8:19 pm by Ben Rubin
  The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, attacks the "policy" and "decisions" of the former Minerals Management Services (now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement) that exploration drilling poses de minimis risk to endangered and threatened species, and therefore is subject to a categorical exemption from full environmental… [read post]
12 May 2010, 5:48 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to break up the Minerals Management Service in the wake of the offshore well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
27 May 2010, 12:00 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Don't Ask Obama Just what would a former Harvard Law Review Editor know about minerals management? [read post]