WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill, will step down in March, Obama administration officials said Wednesday.
Salazar has run the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama’s first term.
A former senator from Colorado, Salazar pushed renewable power such as solar and wind, but gained the most attention for his role in the drilling moratorium, a key part of the administration’s response to the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. It was one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history and led to the unprecedented shutdown of offshore drilling.
Business groups and Gulf Coast political leaders said the shutdown crippled the oil and gas industry and cost thousands of jobs, even aboard rigs not operated by BP PLC.
But Salazar said the industry-wide moratorium was the correct call.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Julie Pace.
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A lot of Rats jumping the USS Odumbo ship, good riddance.
ADIOS, SAYONARA, HASTA LA VISTA, CIAO
Haven’t more of Obama’s appointee’s quit their jobs than any other president. It seems that way… If so… why? I’ve heard he cusses most of his underlings out as well as all those other head honchos… No one wants to see or hear his temper… mainly cause he thinks he’s right and everyone else is wrong. Who wants to work for someone like that…