Elizabeth Birnbaum has resigned! Elizabeth Birnbaum acts as Director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) from July 15, 2009 and resigned on May 27, 2010 as a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
It has been reported by the Associated Press that US President Barack Obama has fired the head of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service. The news agency has stated that Obama will publicize later today that Elizabeth Birnbaum has been taken off the job.
Elizabeth Birnbaum’ agency, which grants leases to oil companies and monitors offshore drilling, has come under condemnation for negligence since the BP well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
As of 12:08 p.m. ET: The Associated Press reported that Elizabeth Birnbaum has resigned.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar relayed to lawmakers, according to the Associated Press account, that Elizabeth Birnbaum resigned “on her own terms and her own volition.”
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