Editorial - The Oil Industry Doesn’t Step Up - NYTimes.com

Editorial - The Oil Industry Doesn’t Step Up - NYTimes.com: "The tales of how the agency, the Minerals Management Service, was corrupted by industry in the Bush years (employees took gifts, steered contracts to favored clients and engaged in drugs and sex with oil company employees) are legendary. Mr. Salazar has taken steps to change that culture.
Only now, after this disastrous spill, are we learning how even when the agency’s regulators tried to do their jobs they were repeatedly rolled or rebuffed by industry."