Salazar: IG Report on Abuses in MMS is ‘Yet Another Reason to Clean House’

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 25, 2010.  A report by the Department of the Interior Inspector General on ethical lapses at the Minerals Management Service (MMS) between 2000 and 2008 highlights the importance of Interior’s ongoing agenda to reform the agency and of new ethics reforms implemented in early 2009.

The report, which is a follow-up report on an investigation that the Inspector General conducted in 2007, notes a number of violations of federal regulations and agency ethics…