The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service has long been known to have an intensely intimate relationship with the extractive industries it regulates. But when President Obama, and his Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, took office in 2009, they proceeded to make some changes to ethics rules in the wake of a sex and drugs scandal in MMS’ Denver office — and that’s about it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=125785