Posts Tagged ‘regulators’

May 25 2010

Report: Drilling regulators took industry gifts

May 25: Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer that residents’ anger is growing over the response in the Gulf oil spill. (Today Show)Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to a new report.


Read more – msnbc.com: U.S. news

May 25 2010

Report: Drilling regulators got industry gifts

May 25: Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer that residents’ anger is growing over the response in the Gulf oil spill. (Today Show)Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to a new report.


Read more – msnbc.com: U.S. news

December 4 2009

Drugmakers, FDA move to curb painkiller abuse (AP)

AP – Pharmaceutical executives are laying out plans to prevent the misuse of prescription painkillers, under pressure from regulators trying to prevent hundreds of fatal overdoses each year.



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