Sit down before you read this. I'm sure you'll be stunned.
From today's NYT:
The Interior Department’s program to collect billions of dollars annually from oil and gas companies that drill on federal lands is troubled by mismanagement, ethical lapses and fears of retaliation against whistle-blowers …
and:
It [the report] suggested that the agency was too cozy with oil companies and that internal critics had good reason to fear punishment.
and:
In one case, senior officials decided that it would impose a "hardship" on oil companies to demand that they calculate the back interest they owed after having been caught underpaying.
and it gets even worse. Read the whole story, if you can bear it.
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