The oil spill impacted the marine life heavily in an area (and still does) which is reliant on fishing in the US, as well as in Mexico. Environmental impactĭeformed shrimp with black tissue were common at the time. In the end, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, issued a secretarial order to break up MMS into several regulatory agencies with very narrowly defined roles and duties.
Employees of the regulatory agency often moved through a revolving door, at times working for the agency while at other times working for the oil companies.
Regulators and employees of the companies they were meant to control repeatedly engaged in parties and interpersonal relationships with each other, often resulting in a lack of actual regulation. The disaster exposed a major failure of the federal agency empowered to regulate the oil drilling industry (Minerals Management Service). Dismissing concerns posed by its own scientists.
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