Big break for big oil, larger burden for taxpayers

By Aaron Mehta

Whistleblowers help recover half-billion in energy revenues - but billions more owed taxpayers on public lands use

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"… o pay $2 million to settle a whistleblower’s claim that it underpaid the Interior Department for fuels extracted from public lands, it was a special moment for U.S. ta …"

"… thanks only to the allegations raised by whistleblowers in sporadic cases. Interior Department audits have resulted in recovery, on average, of another $90 million annua …"

"… tch News there’s much more where that came from – it’s just that the Interior Department is not effectively drilling for it. The collection system is in such disar …"

"… rces, their failure to remedy the decades-old systemic shortcomings at the Interior Department may have allowed billions of dollars in royalties to slip away, increasing …"

Big polluters freed from environmental oversight by stimulus

By Kristen Lombardi and John Solomon

In the name of job creation and clean energy, the Obama administration has doled out billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the na

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"… ffshore drilling projects in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Interior Department has stopped issuing categorical exclusions for drilling projects and inste …"

Six Questions for Kendra Barkoff

Six Questions for...Kendra Barkoff

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"… nd, when necessary, appropriate enforcement actions.  …"

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Re-named offshore energy agency urged to publish production data

By Linsey Isaacs

The scandal-wracked Minerals Management Services changed its name to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)

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"… ized by the Obama administration after a stunning series of reports by the Interior Department’s inspector general in late 2008 detailed corruption and wrongdoing. The …"

"… lable in the most efficient format.”Earlier this month, a team of senior Interior Department officials and the department’s inspector general recommended steps for s …"