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...Project on Government Oversight, a private watchdog group, released a study this week charging that Interior's Minerals and Management Service (MMS) has become far more lax the past four years in collecting unpaid royalties from the land it leases to oil and natural gas companies. From 2002 to 2005, MMS's auditing and compliance division collected $48 million not paid on mineral leases, which is "less than half the average $115 million collected annually in the division's first 20 years," according to Beth Daley, the watchdog organization's director of investigations. The drop in collections, Daley says, came...
...Katrina had already sent massive half billion dollar oil rigs off their moorings and laid waste to vital infrastructure. The conditions created by Katrina in the Gulf industry are "unmatched" in history, says Johnnie Burton, director of the federal Minerals Management Service. Since August 26, according to the latest MMS bulletin issued this week, Katrina has already caused the loss of almost five percent of annual Gulf production, or some 547 million bbls...
...Thomas Sullivan, the current president of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) and a practicing cardiologist in Amherst, Mass., argued that in addition to the serious problem of healthcare access, there is “a crisis in professional liability insurance in Massachusetts.” The state trains more physicians than any other in the country, but retaining those doctors is a growing problem due to rising insurance premiums, he said, citing 2003 reports which show that rates have increased 20-30 percent. As a result, he said, 33 percent of Massachusetts hospitals have closed in the past 20 years...
...MMS was one of many national groups which has advocated capping malpractice awards in the hope of stemming the increase in premiums...
...These phones will give consumers a taste of what always-on Internet connectivity can offer. But the fundamental transformation in the industry will come through a combination of several additional evolving technologies: WAP/XHTML, Java and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS...