Oil spill panel chief says Interior’s reforms might need to go further

The presidential oil spill commission might conclude that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s steps to eliminate conflicting missions within the agency’s offshore oversight should go even further, the panel’s co-chairman said Thursday. alazar, in the wake of the BP spill, has moved offshore revenue collections completely outside the agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service (it’s now called the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement). He’s also separating offshore oil-and-gas leasing programs from safety and environmental enforcement. But William Reilly — co-chairman of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling — said Thursday the reforms might not be enough...more