Official to push for splitting controversial offshore-drilling agency in two

In the wake of the BP oil spill, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is set to call for breaking the Minerals Management Service into two agencies. The MMS was implicated in a series of ethics scandals in 2008. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will propose splitting the troubled agency that regulates offshore drilling in two in a bid to improve safety regulation in response to...

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