The head US Government inadvertence functionary for offshore oil drilling resigned today, four week after a rig disaster in the gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers, sank the vessel and triggered leak that have spewed meg of gallon of rock oil into the sea

Chris Oynes, associate manager of the offshore energy and mineral management program for the inside Department’s mineral management Service, has left his job, bill Lee, an federal agency spokesman, said in an interview

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