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...Headed a two-year investigation into the Minerals Management Service, a group which handles royalty payments tendered by oil companies in exchange for drilling on government lands. In his investigation, he found MMS employees were drinking and using drugs on the job and were having sexual relationships with oil industry contracts. In his report, he said the MMS had a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity...
...more scandal-ridden of the federal government - is a disaster. The Bush Administration stuffed the department with former industry lobbyists who kowtowed to miners and loggers, eviscerated environmental protections like the Endangered Species Act and actively ignored recommendations by the department's scientists. Worse, the Mineral Management Service (MMS) - a branch of Interior that collects royalties from energy industry work on federal lands - was hit this year with a massive scandal. MMS employees received thousands of dollars of gifts from the energy companies they were supposed to be policing; several officials were accused of using drugs at industry functions...
...months since Massachusetts passed a bill requiring that all residents obtain health insurance. Over half of the previously 600,000 uninsured residents have since signed onto health care plans, and the influx of new patients is taxing primary care physicians across the state. The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) warns in their 2007 report that primary care physicians believe that “a workforce shortage is imminent...
...That shortage has already arrived in Massachusetts. The MMS report revealed that 27 percent of medical directors had trouble recruiting family physicians, in comparison to only 7 percent who found it difficult to recruit specialists such as anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and radiologists. The lack of primary care physicians translates into longer waits to see a physician for patients: only 42 percent of patients in Massachusetts could be seen by a primary care physician within a week, a drop of 11 percent over the past two years. In one practice in Western Massachusetts, the next opening for a physical...
Speaking at the hearing, MMS Director Randall Luthi defended the lease sale, arguing that developing fossil fuels in the Arctic needn't hurt the polar bear - although an Interior Department study indicates there's a 33% to 51% chance of an accidental oil spill in the area. At the conclusion of the hearing, Markey introduced legislation that would force the Bush Administration to protect the polar bear before it allows further oil drilling in Alaska, setting up a showdown later this month...